Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/02/17/07:38:47
axlq AT unicorn DOT us DOT com (to comp.os.msdos.djgpp) wrote:
> I just had a pleasant surprise. A friend sent me a fairly large qbasic
> application to look at, and so I loaded it up into RHIDE, that being the
> most convenient editor I have at the moment.
>
> You know how RHIDE parses your C/C++ code to assign colors to different
> bits of text?
>
> Well, it did the same thing for qbasic source! If the file ends in
> .bas, it uses different parsing rules, and recognizes comments beginning
> with a single quote ('), it recognizes BASIC keywords, and so on. It's
> much better than the editor that comes with qbasic!
The syntax highlight engine is configurable. Basically 4 syntax highlights
are really supported by the editor: C/C++, Pascal, Clipper and Generic. The
generic one uses a configuration file called syntaxhl.shl, currently (in
v0.4.23 of my editor, RHIDE 1.4.7 uses 0.4.17 and RHIDE 1.4 uses 0.3.6) there
are definitions for: C/C++, Pascal, Modula 2, Ada, BASIC, .BAT, AT&T x86
assembler, Intel x86 assembler, Clipper, HTML, SDG (*), PMacros(*), the
syntax highlight file ;-), sLisp(*), Menues(*), NASM, Perl, 8051 assembler,
Java and djgpp's .env files.
(*) Files used by the editor.
The generic SHL isn't perfect, but is much better than the SHL found in a lot
of editors. Why two for C, Pascal and Clipper? because the internal version
can take care of small details not configurable with the generic one.
If you want to learn more about it download the standalone editor
(v2apps/edi0417b.zip).
> Now, if only I could run qbasic programs from RHIDE....
If you have RHIDE 1.4.7 and you take a deep look to the docs you'll see that
you can configure the compilation rules used by RHIDE, so perhaps you can
define how to "compile" qbasic files.
> Is this multi-language feature documented anywhere? I don't remember
> reading about it.
Is in my docs (editor.inf), but the features are only documented in newer
versions of the editor (not in 0.3.6 included with RHIDE 1.4).
> In any case, it was a nice suprise. Many thanks to the author!
Ok :-)
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