From: wys@... (Clemens Wyss)
Date: 2001-04-24T13:11:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14133] Re: BlackAdder for Ruby (scintilla rules) - File 0 of 1

Shawn Gordon <shawn@thekompany.com> wrote in
>
>That would be terrific :).
>
>What you need to do is get the Scintilla and Scite sources from 
>www.scintilla.org. You implement support for a new language by writing a
>C module and linking it in. They will end up with a version of Scite
>(using either Windows or Gtk) that supports Ruby. We then lift the new
>module and put it into BlackAdder.
>

Shawn(Neil and Guerry),
find attached a zip-file (hopefully you can open it). It contains both
the scintilla and scite (1.37) directory trees with the following
changes: 

scintilla
- made a seperate lexer module for Ruby (based upon the python lexer. As 
Neil Hodgson suggest we should build upon the c++/java lexer though) 
- "embedded" the Ruby lexer  (wherever necessary) into scintilla
(and scite) project files. This inculdes the make- and dsp-files. 

scite
- extracted the ruby specific properties from python.properties into
ruby.properties (under scite/src) 
- added import ruby instruction into "sciteglobal.properties" files 

I must admit that (although also having changed all make- and gtk-specific-
files) I only tested the win32 (i.e. I built with VC6) version of scite
(scitilla).

Neil Hodgson: Could you merge these changes into the upcoming 1.38
releases of scintilla and scite?

I am aware that this is no more than a first (refactoring) step to a  fully
functional Ruby lexer (LexRuby.cxx). The lexer now needs to be adopted 
(rewritten) for Ruby. 

We are entering phase 2 ;-) which could be "ColouriseRbDoc" and "FoldRbDoc".
As Guerry Semones seems to be digging in here too, I would like to hand
over to him. 

Regards
Clemens