Request for ERuby, ERB or RHTML syntax coloring for Scite

Joao Pedrosa · Oct 8, 2004

Hi all,

I am an avid user of Scite for Ruby editing. One of the first editors
that called my attention was Kate, which has a good syntax
highlighting. Then I switched completely over to Scite, once Kaspar
Schiess provided an extended Ruby syntax highlighting for Scite (it
colors almost everything). Now that Rails has provided such a nice
environment for site development, I wish I had HTML + Ruby syntax
coloring for Scite.

I know there is VIM, Emacs, etc, but I like Scite the most.

I tried to add the support myself, but it's too complex for me. Maybe
someone else better at C can take a look at it:

Scite - http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Kaspar Schiess' extended syntax highlighting -
http://www.tua.ch/ruby/pastprojects.html

Rails - http://www.rubyonrails.org

How does Ruby look to me? -
http://sinsalabintrix.blogspot.com/2004/09/example-code-improved_29.html

Follows a little ERuby or ERB or RHTML script:
--------------------<-- cut ------------<-----------------
<html>
<body>
<h1>Friends#display</h1>
This page will display one friend

<%= @person.name %> 
<%= @person.street1 %> 
<%= @person.street2 %> 
<%= @person.city %> 
<%= @person.state %> 
<%= @person.zip %> 


<% for phone in @person.phones %>
<%= phone.phone %> 
<% end %>


<a href="/friends/list">List</a>
<a href="/friends/destroy/<%[email protected]%>">Delete</a>

</body>
</html>
--------------------<-- cut ------------<-----------------

I hope someone can color "my life" a little bit, and I'm sure
there are more people that will be happy with it as well.

P.S. I am CCing this to the mailing list of Scite.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Joao

Martin DeMello · Oct 8, 2004

Joao Pedrosa said:
How does Ruby look to me? -
http://sinsalabintrix.blogspot.com/2004/09/example-code-improved_29.html

The gtk_rules project looks very interesting! Looking forward to
exploring it.

martin

Martin DeMello · Oct 8, 2004

Martin DeMello said:
The gtk_rules project looks very interesting! Looking forward to
exploring it.

.... if I can find it, that is! The rubyforge page links to an empty
wiki. Has it not been publicly released yet?

martin

Kaspar Schiess · Oct 9, 2004

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| --------------------<-- cut ------------<-----------------
| <html>
| <body>
| <h1>Friends#display</h1>
| This page will display one friend
| 
| <%= @person.name %> 
| <%= @person.street1 %> 
| <%= @person.street2 %> 
| <%= @person.city %> 
| <%= @person.state %> 
| <%= @person.zip %> 
| 
| 
| <% for phone in @person.phones %>
| <%= phone.phone %> 
| <% end %>
| 
|
| <a href="/friends/list">List</a>
| <a href="/friends/destroy/<%[email protected]%>">Delete</a>
|
| </body>
| </html>
| --------------------<-- cut ------------<-----------------

Hello Joao,

Great to hear that you use the Ruby extended SciTe. There are some bugs,
maybe I will get around to fixing them. In the meantime: Would you like
your HTML colored as Ruby or as HTML ? Or combined ?

SciTe lexers are rather complex, so I don't promise anything. But I just
might be tempted by your problem, next time I touch that code...

- --
kaspar

semantics & semiotics
code manufacture

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Joao Pedrosa · Oct 10, 2004

Hi,

Great to hear that you use the Ruby extended SciTe. There are some bugs,
maybe I will get around to fixing them. In the meantime: Would you like
your HTML colored as Ruby or as HTML ? Or combined ?

I thought about merging what SciTe has for HTML with what you have
provided for Ruby, just like PHP has it. But the codes for the HTML
and PHP are integrated. The HTML colors being separated from the Ruby
colors. I think it's good to have the same colors for all the HTML
files, they having Ruby code in or not.

SciTe lexers are rather complex, so I don't promise anything. But I just
might be tempted by your problem, next time I touch that code...

It would be awesome. Now that some of us are waking up for the
combination of Ruby and HTML, it's a must have.

Thanks for the interest!

Cheers,
Joao

Joao Pedrosa · Oct 10, 2004

Hi,

.... if I can find it, that is! The rubyforge page links to an empty
wiki. Has it not been publicly released yet?

I retracted temporarily from open sourcing it. The reason is that I
ran out of time and there is a lot of work for me to put into it,
still. Maybe I will separate it into modules, just like Rails does it.
This way I could keep the released code simple enough for the
necessary support.

Cheers,
Joao

Martin DeMello · Oct 11, 2004

Joao Pedrosa said:
Hi,

I retracted temporarily from open sourcing it. The reason is that I
ran out of time and there is a lot of work for me to put into it,
still. Maybe I will separate it into modules, just like Rails does it.
This way I could keep the released code simple enough for the
necessary support.

Okay

Please do post an ANN to the list when you release it.

martin

Kaspar Schiess · Oct 12, 2004

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Joao Pedrosa wrote:

| I hope someone can color "my life" a little bit, and I'm sure
| there are more people that will be happy with it as well.

Another reply to your mail, once I get to reconsider:

You are probably launching yourself into web application programming
with Ruby. Some advices if this is the case:
~ * Minimize the Ruby code mix with HTML. This not only for syntax
highlighting reasons.
~ * Think of using the frameworks (Rails, Borges, .. )
~ * Think of using database connection frameworks on the level above DBI
~ (This should be standard by now).

Sorry if any of these advices find you informed or even in opposite
opinion.

As to the modifications to the SciTE lexer you requested: I probably
won't make them before a long time, since there are still a number of
problems in the existing lexer. Ruby is such a complex language to parse ...

best regards,
kaspar

semantics & semiotics
code manufacture

www.tua.ch/ruby
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Joao Pedrosa · Oct 12, 2004

Hi,

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Joao Pedrosa wrote:

| I hope someone can color "my life" a little bit, and I'm sure
| there are more people that will be happy with it as well.

Another reply to your mail, once I get to reconsider:

You are probably launching yourself into web application programming
with Ruby. Some advices if this is the case:
~ * Minimize the Ruby code mix with HTML. This not only for syntax
highlighting reasons.

I agree.

~ * Think of using the frameworks (Rails, Borges, .. )

I agree, but WEBrick is cool enough that I want to investigate it more.

~ * Think of using database connection frameworks on the level above DBI
~ (This should be standard by now).

I agree.

Sorry if any of these advices find you informed or even in opposite
opinion.

Thanks for them.

As to the modifications to the SciTE lexer you requested: I probably
won't make them before a long time, since there are still a number of
problems in the existing lexer. Ruby is such a complex language to parse ...

I can imagine. And Neil Hodgson (SciTE) said that Scintilla has some
limitation which would make it harder to support another language
similarly to PHP, for example. He is working on the next generation of
Scintilla, which has better support for mixing different "styles", but
I don't have idea of when it's going to be ready.

Thanks,
Joao

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