Re: [anjuta-devel] Why still keep Scintilla support?

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 07:48:12PM +0200, Sébastien Granjoux wrote:
> Scintilla can highlight project symbol (already defined functions by
> example). I don't know if it's possible with GtkSourceView, Anjuta doesn't
> do it at least. But I don't see any important advantage of Scintilla
> compared to GtkSourceView.

No, GtkSourceView doesn't do that. It should be feasible externally, by
scanning the text buffer to extract the symbols (or use ctags or
whatever), and then apply a GtkSourceStyle to the symbols.

But is it really useful? With features like completion or displaying
diagnostic errors in the margin (with gnome-code-assistance), if there
is a typo in a function name, you'll see it with other means than syntax
highlighting.

One principle for the syntax highlighting in GtkSourceView is to not be
as colorful as possible. It is not a competition for having more than 20
different colors. So project symbols in black is fine I think.

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Sébastien