Style 'tags' are defined...where?

[Stephen Hansen]

Hi all.

I'm experimenting with Peppy, as I'm doing a lot more switching back
and forth between my Mac and Windows installations while working and
going from TextMate to blah-random-editor on Windows makes me sad. So,
I want a consistent editor across both environments.

In Edit->Text Styles, there's all kinds of style tags -- and a lot of
them I'm not precisely clear on *what* they are supposed to be
matching. But through some trial and error, I've found out some and
done a few 'fixes' (to my taste, of course) to work on getting a theme
that feels comfortable.

One problem I have is that 'self' appears to match 'keyword_style',
and that drives me batty. Self is a convention with enough momentum
behind it that it's *almost* a keyword, but I like the 'keyword'
colorings to be more control-flow and structure-ish... similarly, I
never like having 'print' colored as a keyword even though it *is*.

So! I dug around int he code and found the editra/style_specs.py file,
but I'm *really* hoping there's something more accessible then a big
ol' data file that I'm just missing :)

Thanks in advance.

--S

[Rob McMullen]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Stephen Hansen <apt.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm experimenting with Peppy, as I'm doing a lot more switching back
> and forth between my Mac and Windows installations while working and
> going from TextMate to blah-random-editor on Windows makes me sad. So,
> I want a consistent editor across both environments.

That's what I'm talking about! That's why I keep hacking on peppy, so
I can use the same editor on multiple platforms.

> So! I dug around int he code and found the editra/style_specs.py file,
> but I'm *really* hoping there's something more accessible then a big
> ol' data file that I'm just missing :)

I'm borrowing all the styling stuff, including the dialog and the
style tags, from Editra. In the latest versions of peppy I'm
pre-compiling all that style stuff into a big python dict, which is
what you found. When I get over my food coma this weekend, I'll take
a look at the code and expose the keyword lists in the preferences
page so you can add and remove items to suit your tastes.

Rob

[Rob McMullen]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Stephen Hansen <apt.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So! I dug around int he code and found the editra/style_specs.py file,
> but I'm *really* hoping there's something more accessible then a big
> ol' data file that I'm just missing :)

Took a bit longer than I thought it would (what doesn't!) but give
0.13.2 (or the current svn) a try. I've added keyword_set_* options
to the preferences.

It's still not marked in the user interface as to which keyword_set
goes with which style name, so I've got to supply that once I figure
out a way to make that work. The problem is that it's not consistent
in the way Scintilla defines the style numbers (using SetStyleSpec)
and the keyword sets (using SetKeyWords).

Rob

[Stephen Hansen]

Nice. At some point it might be cool to expose more of the actual style details/style patterns -- as ultimately, it'd be cool to put self somewhere else less imposing as keyword colorings. But this is good enough for now :)

Now, if only I can find just where the ctags executable is set again in preferences, I seem to have lost it!

:)

--S 

[Rob McMullen]

Sorry, meant to reply last night...

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Stephen Hansen <apt.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice. At some point it might be cool to expose more of the actual style
> details/style patterns -- as ultimately, it'd be cool to put self somewhere
> else less imposing as keyword colorings. But this is good enough for now :)

It's somewhat limited by scintilla, so I haven't tried to do much
customization above what scintilla gives you for
styles/fonts/colors...

> Now, if only I can find just where the ctags executable is set again in
> preferences, I seem to have lost it!

It's in two places: either Edit -> Preferences... -> Plugins ->
Project Plugin, or alternatively the same interface is presented in
Project -> Project Settings... -> Global Project Settings.

Rob