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List:       kwrite-devel
Subject:    Re: Feature request: include syntax highlighting rules from modeline
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke () tibco ! com>
Date:       2006-10-30 18:43:57
Message-ID: ei5h5d$en0$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Anders Lund wrote:
> I plan to make it very easy to make mixed syntax highlight, like used with PHP 
> (commonly mixed with HTML, but you can use PHP with any text format, as well 
> as Mason, EmbPerl, eperl, jsp, asp etc. 
> 
> Currently this requires generating special versions of each file in the mix or 
> included by any file in the mix. 
> 
> Instead I will make it possible for a hl to define a rule set which can be 
> evaluated in every included context. That will make it possible to create a 
> mixed context in very few lines, or even by selecting components for the mix 
> in a mode line or in a dialog.

Does this mean KATE4 will be able to do things like highlight here-docs 
in bash scripts? That would be very useful! It would be nice if there 
was a way to tint the background color, though, so you could tell such 
highlighting apart from the upper-level highlighting. (I don't think 
overriding the colors as we currently do with <IncludeRules/> would 
work, since I assume we are talking about arbitrary highlighters rather 
than pre-defined sets.)

This brings up another wish that I had tried to code at one point and 
couldn't get to work right: color inheritance. I.e. it would be really 
nice if highlighters like C/C++ could use the colors specified for the 
Doxygen highlighter as "default" rather than just 'dsXyz' (did that make 
any sense?).

-- 
Matthew
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