[ruby-talk:13877] Re: A possible Ruby IDE. Help needed.

Guerry Semones wrote:
> 
> "Bernard Delm馥" wrote:
> >
> > Clemens,
> >
> > on Windows, the RubyWin IDE also uses Scintilla as its editing component,
> > and the TODO list mentions syntax coloring. It may ne worth checking with
> > the author Masaki Suketa if he has taken any steps towards this.
> >
> > see:
> > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=RubyWin
> >
> > Good luck and t.i.a,
> >
> > Bernard.
> >
> > FYI, Mark Hammond's PythonWin IDE also uses Scintilla, to a very
> > convincing effect...
> 
> I downloaded SciTE from the Scintilla site (an editor that demonstrates
> Scintilla's capabilities).  Anyway, considering some of the notational /
> syntactical similarities between python and Ruby, there is already alot
> of the color-coding and code-folding that works.  I'm going to put up
> Ruby in Gvim with color-coding and compare to SciTE and see what's
> missing.  The LexPython.cxx file with Scintilla should/could be a
> starting point.

I hate to respond to my own post, but apparently when I load a Ruby file
into SciTE, it does a pretty good first pass at colorizing.  Exploring
around a bit, I see a Tools>Use Lexer menu option.  There I see that the
Lexer chosen is "none".  When I switch the lexer to "Python", some
colorization goes away, primarily END statements....  Hm.  If I then
switch the lexer back to "none", *all* colorization goes away (even
though that was the Lexer chosen when I opened and things looked pretty
good.

Now to find out which lexer is *really* being opened with Ruby....

Later,

Guerry

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