Re: [anjuta-devel] Vala and the new code-assistance architecture

[Moritz Lüdecke <ritze skweez net>]

Hello,

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:32:15 +0100, Abderrahim Kitouni wrote:
> My understanding is that the consensus was to split the indentation 
> part
> from the other language support features as the indentation part 
> could
> be used by multiple plugins that have similar syntax (c++ and vala 
> for
> instance).

That was already done. see 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676084

> I've completely forgotten this :-)
> But splitting the plugins further won't fix the problem. Thinking 
> about
> it, the best solution would be to put the configuration in some other
> plugin, maybe the editor plugin (as it already provides means for 
> code
> completion). What do the others think?

Good Idea! But what will we do, if a language-support plugin won't 
support some options? Should we hide this option from the user, if this 
plugin is activated?

> I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you want to have a plugin for
> completion that will use one of the parser plugins to do the 
> completion?

That's what I mean.

> That doesn't seem to be a good idea to me, since every language has 
> some
> specificities that make it difficult to do this in a single plugin.

I also had this apprehension, but I hoped that is not the case.

> Am I misunderstanding something?

No, you understood me correctly. ;-)

Regards,
Moritz