On 4 August 2010 23:33, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lex, > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: >> let me try an example, of a simple piece of Perl, with the folds shown >> as best I can in plain text >> >> +- if( $a<10 ){ >> | print $i >> -- } >> >> +- sub aaa { >> | return 1 >> -- } >> >> Then you fold up the sub aaa. >> >> Now deciding to add some text to the print type a quote on that line, >> the sub stays rolled up but notice that it changes colour to indicate >> its part of the string and the fold indicators disappear, as they >> should, it is parsed as part of a string. So there is no fold point >> here to store the information that this is folded. > > On my computer it doesn't stay rolled up. But no matter - we agree > that in the end the sub is unfolded. > > >> And folds in PHP and Ruby behave the same as Perl, they unfold, in >> fact using the same scenario as above they unfold immediately you type >> the opening quote, the others I don't know enough to test. > > So that's 4 to 6 languages that have this problem. > >> Geany doesn't actually control the parsing, its done by Scintilla the >> editing component it uses. So Geany doesn't actually know that there >> is an unclosed string in the file, and so wouldn't be able to use this >> approach as far as I can see. > > Not much chance of it getting fixed then?
Well, you should bring up the issue on the Scintilla mailing list, but I wouldn't be too hopeful since technically the parser is doing the right thing parsing everything as a string and so losing the folds. Note that the same thing happens with multiline comments in C/C++, when you open the comment everything after loses the fold points and is unfolded. At least until a close comment is encountered. Cheers Lex > > Daniel. > -- > Intolerant people should be shot. > _______________________________________________ > Geany mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany > _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
