:)
Please forgive; I'm new to Mantis. This is now stale:

http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7383

I can add notes, and delete the notes that I've added, but I can't
resolve the issue as far as I can tell.

 - Ron

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Andreas Raab wrote:
>
>> Ah. I think I wasn't clear here. The goal is to provide syntax
>> highlighting hooks directly in SmalltalkEditor (see the earlier discussion
>> about the SmalltalkEditor/TextEditor distinction). These hooks just happen
>> to look a lot like the extension methods Shout uses today ;-) But by the end
>> of the day, all you will need from Shout are the categories Shout-Parsing
>> and Shout-Styling and you will get highlighting without extra dependencies.
>> If you happen to write an alternative package that can be utilized with the
>> same protocol you will be able to hook this in seamlessly. And if you think
>> that syntax highlighting is a waste of memory, you can just unload Shout.
>>
>
> The hooks are now in place. If you update from the trunk, you can load
> shout, it will work out of the box, and none of its extension methods have
> any impact whatsoever (other than to litter your image a little ;-) I'm
> lobbying Andy to make a release so that we can only use the "core" pieces of
> shout (Shout-Parsing and Shout-Styling); as soon as we got that we're ready
> to push shout into the trunk.
>
> In case you're curious, I implemented this by adding a subtype to the
> ToolBuilder text spec, a code pane spec. It's specific intent is for code
> editing so it does by default use syntax highlighting (and perhaps
> auto-completion and other purely coding-related facilities). I also renamed
> some of the shout specific methods (shoutAboutToStyle:) to just be called,
> e.g., #aboutToStyle: to avoid conflicts with the extensions in Shout (these
> are installed but not used if you're running trunk images).
>
> So ... anyone having a good code completion handy?
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>
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