gtksourceview - dynamic keywords[New Feature Request]



    Introducing myself:
My name is Aravindhan.K . I am a UG CSE student.For last four years I am using opensource software, I love them, and now have determined to contribute . I am newbie programmer so please help or mentor me.

People developing applications use glib and use gint,gchar instead of (int, char) for most of times. But they are not highlighted .So the code looks not that much awesome. The same problem goes for any external library or user defined datatypes. To make the code look more better, gtksourceview should
support adding keywords dynamically.

Idea :- adding api functions to gtksourceview such as add_keyword, remove_keyword,enable_dynamic_keywords, disable_dynamic_keywords, load_keywords_from_file (returns a unique key which should be used to disable those
keywords latter),disable_keywords_with_key and few others.

 What kind of data structure to be used?
    GList of Structures with members keyword , enabled[yes or no]. or
    any lightweight database engines such as sqllite.
Should normal keywords to merged the dynamic one or else they have separate variables.

The processing of symbols should be taken care by external tools or IDE using gtksourceview.
    If my idea is useful and implementable where and how to get started ?
Regards,
Aravindhan . K


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