AsciiDoc lexer

[alain.v...@gmail.com]

Hi there

I am not at all familiar with this way of communicating, and don't know if it is the right place,but I did not find info elsewhere... So :

Question is : Using geany IDE http://www.geany.org/ and Asciidoctor http://asciidoctor.org/, why didn't I get syntax highlighting while editing .adoc documents ... ?

The answer is probably : Scintilla is not supporting AsciiDoc format, because there is no Lexer for it...

Am I right ?

If yes, what is preventing us to have such a lexer (fundamental reasons ?)

If nothing is preventing us, how to move forward ? I do not have an account on SourceForge to propose a feature request http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/
Shall I create a new one ? Someone interested in this feature -> AsciiDoc lexer for syntax highlighting ?


Thanks for your replies.
Best regards
Alain

[Neil Hodgson]

Alain Vigne:

> Question is : Using geany IDE http://www.geany.org/ and Asciidoctor http://asciidoctor.org/, why didn't I get syntax highlighting while editing .adoc documents ... ?
>
> The answer is probably : Scintilla is not supporting AsciiDoc format, because there is no Lexer for it...
>
> Am I right ?

I’m not sure since I don’t use Geany. Some applications include generic lexers that you can teach about new languages.

The language looks similar to other light markup languages like Markdown and txt2tags. If its sufficiently similar to these then it may be possible to use their lexers which are called “markdown” and “txt2tags”.

> If nothing is preventing us, how to move forward ? I do not have an account on SourceForge to propose a feature request http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/
> Shall I create a new one ?

If the existing lexers aren’t good enough then that is something you could do, possibly starting from one of the above-mentioned lexers.

Neil

[Lex Trotman]

On 27 June 2015 at 07:47, Neil Hodgson <nyama...@me.com> wrote:
> Alain Vigne:
>
>> Question is : Using geany IDE http://www.geany.org/ and Asciidoctor http://asciidoctor.org/, why didn't I get syntax highlighting while editing .adoc documents ... ?
>>
>> The answer is probably : Scintilla is not supporting AsciiDoc format, because there is no Lexer for it...
>>
>> Am I right ?

Correct, there is a tags parser for asciidoc in Geany which shows the
document outline, but no lexer.

>
> I’m not sure since I don’t use Geany. Some applications include generic lexers that you can teach about new languages.

Geany doesn't provide that capability.

>
> The language looks similar to other light markup languages like Markdown and txt2tags. If its sufficiently similar to these then it may be possible to use their lexers which are called “markdown” and “txt2tags”.

Asciidoc is similar to those so they would possibly be a good starting
point, though there are a few gotchas in Asciidoc, I don't know the
quality of the markdown or txt2tags lexers to suggest which is better
to start with.

Cheers
Lex

>
>> If nothing is preventing us, how to move forward ? I do not have an account on SourceForge to propose a feature request http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/
>> Shall I create a new one ?
>
> If the existing lexers aren’t good enough then that is something you could do, possibly starting from one of the above-mentioned lexers.
>
> Neil
>

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