customize syntax-highlighting

[Roland Krause]

Hi,

--- Christian Couder <chcouder at club-internet.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Maximilian Hrabowski wrote :
> > 
> > is there any way to customize the syntax-highlighting in the
> editor?
> 
> The editor in the current stable version of KDevelop is still based
> on
> an old fork of kwrite where highlighting is hardcoded.
> So if you want to customize it or (earlier versions) you will have to
> make changes in the kdevelop/kwrite/highlight.cpp file.
> 
> Roland Krause has worked on a branch of kdevelop 2.x to use kate as
> the
> editor. You could perhaps use this branch. (Ask Roland about it.)
>
The branch is officially been declared dead in favor of gideon. The
kate part worked but KDE HEAD has since then moved on and I have not
had any luck with getting it to work with the new KTextEditor
interfaces. Let's wait for kate to arrive in gideon.

Roland
 
> In kate, syntax highlighting is now defined in xml files (one xml
> file
> for each supported language). So it's much simpler to customize.
> 
> KDevelop 3.0 (still in development) will hopefully be able to use
> different external editors like kate. 
> 
> > 
> > I have some special data types and want them to be displayed like
> int, long &
> > co.
> 
> It should not be very difficult to customize the code in
> kdevelop/kwrite/highlight.cpp because highlighted data types are
> defined
> like this :
> 
> const char *cTypes[] = {
>   "auto", "char", "const", "double", "float", "int", "long",
> "register",
>   "short", "signed", "static",
>   "unsigned", "void", "volatile", 0L};
> 
> const char *cppTypes[] = {
>   "bool", "wchar_t", "mutable", 0L};
> 
> you probably need to add your special types to the list, compile and
> install.
> 
> Bye,
> Christian.
> 
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