[QScintilla] How does one get informations given in the QsciLexer ?

[Phil Thompson]

On Monday 10 December 2007, Xavier Noëlle wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007 10:51 AM, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, I don't really understand the question. Why is your QsciLexer
> > buried under the surface?
>
> I mean that when I'm writing a Scintilla lexer, I don't have (or
> should not have) access to the specific lexer in the platform it is
> running. I would not understand why one would have explicitly access
> to a QsciLexer or a GTKsciLexer or a FixmesciLexer, since I suppose
> this is Scintilla's purpose to be cross-platform (I mean Qt, GTK and
> others, not Windows/Linux).
>
> > Things like characterWords are specific to your lexer
> > (even if they happen to have the same values as other lexers).
>
> Excuse me, I swapped words :-) It's wordCharacters and it's defined in
> QsciLexer as virtual
> (http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Docs/QScintilla2/classQsciLexer.html).
>
> virtual const char * wordCharacters () const
>
> I supposed that, since it was defined in QsciLexer, it meant that one
> could generically get it from above (Scintilla). How is it used if we
> don't have an access to it ?

QsciScintilla::wordCharacters()

Phil