Class: NaiveSyntaxHighlighterForLisp (in Tools)

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • constants
• Instance protocol
  • api highlighting
  • initialization
  • private-scanning

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Scanner
      |
      +--Parser
         |
         +--AbstractSyntaxHighlighter
            |
            +--Tools::NaiveSyntaxHighlighter
               |
               +--Tools::NaiveSyntaxHighlighterForLisp

Package:

stx:libtool

Category:

Interface-Tools-File-Syntax

Version:

rev: 1.10 date: 2024/04/28 08:41:47

user: cg

file: Tools__NaiveSyntaxHighlighterForLisp.st directory: libtool

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libtool

Description:

a quick and dirty hack;
not really (yet) aware of what it is doing.
All highlighting is based on hardcoded heuristics;
a bad implementation, but better than nothing...

formatFileContents:elementsInto:
format (recolor) a file's contents.
     Return the text containing font changes and color information.

Class protocol:

 controlFlowKeywords

flush cache when changing:
ControlFlowKeywords := nil

 knownFunctionKeywords

flush cache when changing:
KnownFunctionKeywords := nil

 syntaxDefiningKeywords

flush cache when changing:
SyntaxDefiningKeywords := nil

Instance protocol:

 formatFileContents: aString elementsInto: elementsCollection

format (recolor) a file's contents.
Return the text containing font changes and color information.

 initialize

must be called if redefined

 scanAtom

attn: stops on one of those special chars,

 scanEOLComment

 scanHashBarComment

 scanNumber

CScanner notNil

 scanStep

actually a constant: nil.

 scanString

unterminated string