The problematic single-line comment

[nsgnkhibdk2cls0f]

I'm trying to create Objeck syntax highlighting rules for KDE's Kate editor. I'm stuck with the comments currently. If I make multi-line comments work, then single-line comments break. If I make single-line comments work, then multi-line comments break. It's all because Objeck's design of comments. Objeck is not special in using a single # char for single-line comments, Ruby does too. But Ruby has a very different multi-line comment syntax that very rarely used when Objeck take inspiration from C language family's /* and */ to be #~ and ~#. That caused problems as the text editor doesn't know when it's multi-line comment and when it's single-line comment. If it's only single-line comment that uses # char then it's easy. C language family's single-line comment started with two / char (//) so it's easy to tell when it's single-line comment when it's multi-line comment. But this design is part of the language from the beginning so it's not easy to change it. It could be Ruby encountered this problem too so they decided to use a very weird syntax for multi-line comment, so weird that it's very rarely used: =begin and =end.

p/s: I used the CSharp syntax file as the foundation to build my Objeck syntax file:

https://github.com/KDE/syntax-highlighting/blob/master/data/syntax/cs.xml

[objeck]

Thanks, I will look into this. Will you file this as an issue of type enhancement?

[nsgnkhibdk2cls0f]

If the C++ based Scintilla lexer is available, it will have higher precedence than the Lua based Scintilla lexer.

[ghost]

@nsgnkhibdk2cls0f IMO you should complete the Lua based Scintilla lexer first. You can't know when the C++ based Scintilla lexer will available.

[nsgnkhibdk2cls0f]

I have done the best I can. I'm not a programmer and don't understand the regexes. I organized the keywords a bit arbitrary as I don't know how to put them in the right category of their kind. The rest should depend on @objeck to refine it.

#93 #95 #97

[nsgnkhibdk2cls0f]

Both TextAdept and Lite XL support LSP, they could be good Objeck IDE in the future (not yet tried, though. Objeck language server requires something called Code Action as I know, some LSP implementations support it, some don't).

[objeck]

Thanks, I will take a look during breaks from GTK3 development.