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<body><div style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><P>I see that KDevelop seems to use one parser for code completion, class browsing and whatever. This is located in kdevelop/languages and uses ANTLR. But KDevelop also uses a less sophisticated parser for syntax highlighting and code folding. This is located in kdelibs/kate/data and uses XML. This duplication seems to harm performance, maintainability and functionality:<BR>* Performance: It seems unnecessary to parse the same text twice.<BR>* Maintainability: 2 parsers are more work to maintain than one.<BR>* Functionality: The parser for highlighting/folding is very primitive This makes the result equally primitive as well.</P>
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<P>Suggestion: Use the ANTLR parser for highlighting and folding for the languages that have such a parser. It has much more information and should therefore be able to achieve a much better result.</P>
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