Re: [Vala] Autocomplete with Vala

[Jan Van Buggenhout <chipzz safehex be>]

On 2007-09-27 20:33:12 (+0000), J?rg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 16:24 -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote:
> > Wow! Its great to see the interest! I'll hold up on actual
> > implementation for a little bit. Probably until I hear something about
> > the new C parser.
>
> The C parser in gen-introspect is not needed for code completion, you
> should just use the information from the VAPI file via libvala.

Ah ok, you don't need to parse the VAPI files yourself. :) What I was
referring to in my previous mail is that with a new parser very subtle
differences in the VAPI files (like indentation or number of spaces or
whatever) could be introduced (even by accident), which would make a
simple parser, which is not built to be robust, possibly fail. But if
this is taken care of by libvala then by all means ignore my previous
comment.

> > Another thing, I'm trying to determine exact syntactical rules for
> > vala (primarily where/how they differ from those of C#) any guidance
> > or documentation in this regard would be awesome.
>
> We're still working on the documentation part, will hopefully be able to
> invest more time for that in the following weeks.
>
> > On 9/27/07, Jan Van Buggenhout <chipzz safehex be> wrote:
> > > I think code completion (or is it syntax highlighting?) is being worked
> > > on for anjuta.
> > Hmmm, I'll investigate, syntax highlighting would be cool but what we
> > really need is to just get vala syntax highlighting into
> > gtksourceview, then prettymuch everyone we care about will be able to
> > inherit it ;)
>
> gtksourceview 2.0.0 already comes with Vala support :)
>
> Jürg

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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