Hi, please review KF5::SyntaxHighlighting (syntax-highlighting in Git) for becoming a framework :)
This is a tier1/functional version of the Kate syntax highlighting engine. It's not tied to a particular output format or editor engine, the interface is basically just passing in a line of text and getting back a set of formatting instructions. A QSyntaxHighlighter and a HTML CLI highlighter are included, for example. Use Cases - I initially started this for use in GammaRay's QRC browser (which can embed into QtCreator, making using the KXmlGui-dependent Kate part problematic) - It's already used in KDAB's internal QML-based training presentation tool - Kate, obviously (see below) - possibly replacing a few hand-written highlighters in KDE PIM (Sieve, message source, diff attachments), and enabling inline attachment highlighting - the Kate team apparently also had some demand for this in the past, e.g. for use in CLI tools Relation to Kate I showed my work on this to the Kate team at Akademy, originally to get help regarding some semantic corner cases in the highlighting files, however the feedback I got was a plan to turn this into a framework, and a migration strategy for Kate, therefore the recent activity into that direction :) The migration would happen in small steps, the first one being Kate switching to use the syntax definition files from the new library, as well as the indexing and meta data loading code. More features would follow in the subsequent releases, together with making the corresponding API officially public. Future steps might include syncing the format/theme settings, determining which syntax to use for a given file, and of course the ultimately switching the entire syntax highlighting related code over to the new library. For this all to start, we'd need an initial KF5::SyntaxHighlighting release first though, to not have KTextEditor depend on something unreleased. Regards, Volker
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