[QScintilla] Missing functionality from SciTE

[Scott Bloom]

How do you add/set and arbitrary property to a qscintilla object?






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From: Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
Date: 4/11/18 01:16 (GMT-08:00)
To: Scott Bloom <scott at towel42.com>
Cc: QScintilla <qscintilla at riverbankcomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [QScintilla] Missing functionality from SciTE

On 11 Apr 2018, at 1:10 am, Scott Bloom <scott at towel42.com> wrote:
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> Looking at the scintilla example app SciTE some of the functionality has been brought over to QScintilla, however Im looking for the commenting functionality, which has not been brought over.
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> Unfortunately, it seems to rely on properties that are not set for the lexers in the QScintilla.
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> For instance, “Block Commenting or Uncommenting” gets the characters to use from the property “comment.block.cpp” which is not set, as QScintilla relies on the base LexCPP.cpp for comment analysis.
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> Maybe Im trying to hard, but it should be possible to do.
>
> Thoughts?

QScintilla is not a port of SciTE, although there are features in common. As SciTE will use the low-level Scintilla API it should be possible to implement anything in a QScintilla based editor that is implemented in SciTE.

Phil
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