From: oxman <no@...>
Date: 2005-01-16T04:51:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-gnome2 : problem with signal "insert-text"

So you're the developper of aeditor ?
Or developper of an other text editor ?

Joao Pedrosa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 04:16:10 +0900, oxman <no@in-your-dream.net> wrote:
> 
>>I prefer a more generic way, such as :
>>buffer.signal_connect_after('insert-text') do |a,iter,text,length|
>>         color(buffer, iter)
>>end
>>
>>def color (buffer, iter)
>>         first_char = iter
>>         first_char.offset -= iter.line_offset
>>         last_char = buffer.get_iter_at_offset(first_char.offset)
>>         last_char.forward_to_line_end
>>         line_text = first_char.get_visible_text(last_char)
>>         f = File.open("ruby.color")
>>         f.each_line do |pattern|
>>                 pattern.strip!
>>                 if (match = Regexp.new(pattern).match(line_text))
>>                         length = match.pre_match.length
>>                         start_iter =
>>buffer.get_iter_at_offset(first_char.offset + length)
>>                         length = match.post_match.length
>>                         end_iter =
>>buffer.get_iter_at_offset(last_char.offset - length)
>>                         2.times
>>{buffer.apply_tag(buffer.tag_table.lookup("blue"), start_iter, end_iter)}
>>                 end
>>         end
>>end
>>
>>sentinel% cat ruby.color
>>#.+$
>>if
>>else
> 
> 
> Cool. :-)
> 
> I don't know how I'm going to use it yet. I like the syntax highlight
> provided by AEditor. I'm using it already, but only for the entire
> buffer when loading or on demand. Your Regexes might be great as well.
> 
> It was cool to think about it in your example. I'm not in a hurry to
> get this working, though. What I have is good enough for me (a simple
> working editor)... But, I still need to provide full syntax
> highlighting... hehe.
> 
> If GtkSourceText was available on Windows, then I would use it... But
> it's not. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Joao
> 
>