[Eric] Extending language support in Eric

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I'm also interested by that feature so if someone does something wich 
works, I'll really appreciate that he gives here all the pratical steps 
to do it.

Christophe.


Detlev Offenbach a écrit :
> On Samstag, 9. Mai 2009, Pavel Panchekha wrote:
>   
>> I'd like to add support in Eric for a programming language I wrote myself,
>> Oranj. The language core is written in Python, so it shouldn't be too hard
>> to integrate, for example, a parser or console. I'm mainly interested to
>> see how I could extend Eric to understand Oranj.
>> I know Eric already supports Python and Ruby, so its somewhat
>> cross-language already. How hard would it be to add another language? How
>> would I go about it?
>>
>> - Pavel Panchekha
>>     
>
> Step 1: Write a language lexer for QScintilla to support syntax highlighting
> (Alternative: extend Pygments)
> Step 2: Write a parser to support the class browser
> Step 3: Write a parser (or reuse the one of step 2) to support source 
> documentation and API file generation
> Step 4: Write a debugger backend in your language for use with the eric IDE
> Step 5: Patch the various places that are language specific. (You can search 
> for Ruby)
>
> Regards,
> Detlev
>