Scintilla Lexer for D

[Hasan Aljudy]

Chris Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:31:19 -0500, jcc7 <technocrat7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Waldemar Wrote:
>>
>>> Folks FYI,
>>>
>>> Scintilla now has a lexer for D.  At the moment it is available only 
>>> via CVS
>>> but should appear in the next release.  This will make all 
>>> scintilla-based
>>> editors and IDEs capable of supporting D very easily.
>>
>> Sounds great! Thanks for doing this.
>>
>> I took a glance at the source (I think I found the right file):
>> http://scintilla.cvs.sourceforge.net/scintilla/scintilla/src/LexD.cxx?revision=1.1&view=markup 
>>
>>
>> It looks like you've even managed to support nested comments. That's 
>> fantastic!
>>
>> Do you have any idea how often the Scintilla team releases new 
>> versions? I can't wait to try this out. ;)
>>
>> jcc7
> 
> Hmm.. My Scintilla changes supported D and its nesting comments for a 
> long time, almost a year and a half.
> This guy even emailed me a while back asking if my changes could be 
> incorporated in Scintilla and I said sure.
> http://wiki.dprogramming.com/DLex/HomePage ~ 
> http://wiki.dprogramming.com/SciTE/HomePage
> o-kay.

heheh ..
I knew there's already a D port of Scintilla, and I was gonna say that, 
but I know next to nothing about Scintilla, and I wasn't sure if there 
was a fundamental difference between this one and that one, so I didn't 
say anything, fearing that I would only put myself in an embarrassing 
position.