std.d.lexer requirements

Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 13:54:45 PDT 2012


On 8/2/12, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> It still needs to update the editor view with the correct syntax
> highlighting which needs to be done in the same thread as the rest of
> the GUI.

It can do that immediately for the text that's visible in the window
because ~100 lines of text can be lexed pretty damn instantly. As soon
as that's done the GUI should be responsive and the rest of the text
buffer should be lexed in the background.


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