Re: [Vala] Autocomplete with Vala

["Kevin Kubasik" <kevin kubasik net>]

On 9/27/07, Jan Van Buggenhout <chipzz safehex be> wrote:
> 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.
Very cool, I'm not wild about integrating with a C lib, since C isn't
my strongpoint, but I figure if I can get a little help with
P/Invoking the info into lovely (and sexy) objects, thats fine ;) Then
once its in the index its all downhill.


> > > 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.
Thats completely cool, I understand. However, just for my
planning/sanity, I really need to determine if its worth starting this
by basically copying over the C/C++ support plugin,  or the C# support
plugin. I'm thinking that most of the vala-c# differences are with
behaviour and libs, but when it comes to raw syntax, were talking very
very small changes. If thats the case, I can keep much of the insert
and parsing logic, all I have to do it tear out the
reflection/introspection component, which with the use of libvala,
shouldn't be an overly lengthy process. As monodevelop uses
Gtksourceview, we get syntax highlighting for 'free'. Anyways, I don't
need a complete or super-accurate list, just if there are any big
differences, (or smaller common ones) noting them would be a great
help before I get too deep into an evaluation of the C# parser.



> > > 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 :)

Great!
> > Jürg
>
> kr,
>
> Chipzz AKA
> Jan Van Buggenhout
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