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List:       kwrite-devel
Subject:    Re: Default Styles
From:       Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date:       2014-02-17 23:13:47
Message-ID: 1624209.ryCheJdX84 () minime
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On Monday 17 February 2014 17:59:58 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
<snip>

> > Strings
> > - dsChar
> > - dsString
> > ? dsRawString   (new, '' in Perl, CoffeeScript and Bash, r'' or r"" in
> > Python) + dsRegExp      (new, JavaScript and other languages heavily rely
> > on it) ? dsRegExpOp    (new, RegExp semantics: ^\., [:space:], ...)
> 
> I think I'd like to see dsRawString; it's fairly common and can readily
> be overloaded for other flavors of "this is a string... sort of" if it
> isn't used more directly.
> 
> I'm less sure about dsRegExp (IMHO I'd rather have dsRawString first, or
> maybe even e.g. dsSpecialString which could be used for regexp's in
> cases it isn't needed for something else). Also, if we went with
> dsSpecialString (instead of dsRegExp, and maybe also dsRawString), then
> we could have a dsSpecialChar to go with it, which I think would be
> better than dsRegExpOp.

This is actually a very valid concern. The more I think about it, the less 
convinced I am we need a special regexp highlight. Just use a string but give 
the chars in that string which have regexp-features special highlighting.

> > Numbers
> > + dsOperator    (new, for +-*/::<> etc..., lots of languages define this)
> 
> I'm fine with dsOperator but IMHO it doesn't belong in the 'Numbers'
> category :-).

:)

> > Misc
> > ? dsLink        (new, url, path)
> 
> I think I liked dsReference better (or at least in addition). I've been
> doing a ton of reST lately and there are reference entities that are
> debatable if they are links. (In fact, if you look at reST, is has
> separate attributes for several flavors of references and targets, not
> all of which use the same default attribute. But wanting both is still
> probably unusual.)

In reST you don't have data types though so you could just create a named 
style which uses dsDataType or similar, no?

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail@milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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