QSciScintilla with lexilla support?

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Sat Jun 29 09:50:40 BST 2024


On 29/06/2024 05:21, Wang Gary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Was trying out QSciScintilla recently, and while reading
> documentation, I found the original Scintilla documentation says[1]:
> 
>> Scintilla 5 has moved the lexers from Scintilla into a new Lexilla 
>> project.
> 
> [1]: https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html
> 
> Which seems have a much cleaner ways to create lexers (CreateLexer
> API), and have much more available lexers to use. So my questions are:
> 
> 1. What's the Scintilla that QSciScintilla is based on? Is there an
> API to get such info?

v3.10.1, see...

https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/QScintilla/

> 2. Is it possible to make use of the Lexilla projectly? If not, is
> there any plan to provide an API in QSciScintilla to support the
> Lexilla project?

No immediate plans. QScintilla is effectively in maintenance mode - I 
will keep it working with new versions of Qt but there is little 
incentive to do a major upgrade.

Phil


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