Porting VisualD to Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Monday, 11 June 2012 at 17:41:12 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> No. Syntax highlighting is done by the lexer, no (complex) 
> parsing involved. The only case where the parser is consulted 
> (but not waiting for an answer, just using cached information) 
> is to figure out whether "in"/"is" are used as operators or as 
> parameter modifier/IsExpression, respectively.
>
> Syntax highlighting needs to be rather fast, as it is done 
> during drawing, so switching context is out of the question. 
> Instead, Visual D keeps a lexer-state (an int) per line and 
> continues scanning from the start of the line when color 
> information is requested by the IDE.
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