Discussion: What do you think about using Scintilla?

[iahung3]

eepp is a C++ code base, so I think it's not hard to integrate Scintilla.

[SpartanJ]

Scintilla provides an interface to develop a full editor, but we already have all that ready and working, integrating it is almost impossible today. But, it's possible to integrate the lexers via Lexilla, the Scintilla lexer library. As for the moment I don't see any great advantage of adding an additional lexer, we already support plenty of languages and there's no particular advantage of including a secondary lexer. I do think that it sounds more interesting adding tree-sitter support given that it has really nice results for syntax-highlighting. Scintilla lexers are good but not great.

[iahung3]

Thank you for the detailed answer. Btw, I don't think you can use Lexilla without Scintilla.

[SpartanJ]

It's possible! It's just not very convenient (the API is not very nice). When I started developing an editor I wanted to lean how all this worked, so I skipped Scintilla because it has all solved for you, it was not fun to use it from the learning point of view, I wasn't planning doing a full blown editor, just a very simple editor to integrate to the eepp GUI editor, but I ended up getting too enthusiastic about it and now we have ecode. I might had used it in a different situation though.