Re: Independent styles

Baltasar Garc=C3=ADa Perez-Schofield:

> I've been trying to create a "dark mode" for SCiTE.
> ...
> Unfortunately, I finally gave up. The problem is that you have to modify =
nearly all the language configurations, including those to come.
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> For instance, Julia includes what appears to be a set of styles:
> ...
> There should be a way to define a set of limited styles, that all the oth=
ers could refer to. For instance, it seems that styles 1, 2, 3, 4... are mo=
re or less standard for all languages, I wonder if you could do something l=
ike:

   There are conflicting desires here. In one direction, some people want t=
o control styling generically but another (sometimes overlapping) group of =
people want to have each nuance of the language differentiated.

   Languages may, for example, offer a plethora of differing quoted string =
literal types. Some interpret escapes and others don't; some allow interpol=
ation; some are for regular expressions; some are for a single character; s=
ome allow different character sets; some are for embeds inside another cons=
truct. Perl has around 25 different quoted literal styles recognized by Lex=
illa. Applying one string style over all of these (or a short subset) remov=
es information that can be wanted and useful.

   If the short list of global styles is only applied to the most directly =
equivalent styles then the original concern of having to change each langua=
ge properties file remains and is not significantly eased.

   Each language has areas of application and these areas influence what is=
 regarded as important enough to have specific syntax. They shouldn't be tr=
eated as just variants of some familiar base language.

   Neil

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