Re: dark theme

I am trying to work out a patch for the dark mode feature but am stuck on 
correctly scoping
a kind of global variable named `bool invertBrightness` so that it can be 
set when properties are in

On Wednesday, 3 May 2023 at 22:30:50 UTC+1 Red M wrote:

> you depend on the lexer in order to set colors for keywords, identifiers, 
>> numbers...
>>
> Yes because SciTE isn't a lexer and to remove lexillia would be silly 
> because then you'd have no lexers at all and so now you have no 
> highlighting. 
>
> This way, it would be possible to create different "style" files, light, 
>> dark, QBasic editor...
>>
> I already have done exactly that with the way SciTE already is using Lua 
> scripts.
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 8:21 PM Baltasar García Perez-Schofield <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Personally, I find the way SciTE configures its colors too complex. I 
>> mean, you depend on the lexer in order to set colors for keywords, 
>> identifiers, numbers... At the top level, I guess SciTE knows nearly 
>> nothing about symbols, i.e., the mentioned keywords and identifiers. This 
>> is maybe due to the fact that maybe, for instance, the language ScITE is 
>> editing does not have keywords.
>>
>> I think that these concepts should be moved to the top level, so ScITE 
>> would know about keywords, identifiers and so on, and then the lexers would 
>> not have anything to do with colors, only maybe with specific symbols that 
>> are not dealt with by the top level.
>>
>> This way, it would be possible to create different "style" files, light, 
>> dark, QBasic editor...
>>
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