2010/5/25 Zaher Dirkey : > I beleave regex is not a good choice. > If you compare the speed you will find SynEdit is more faster.
Again, I think this is more related to implementation details. Some editors do it great, some others don't. Some of the editors I looked at that uses regular expressions for syntax highlighting, managed to open 10MB source code files (like the old macosall.pp unit) and syntax highlighting was instant (even when you scroll to the end of the file). So it is definitely *not* a hard and fast rule that if an editor uses regular expressions for syntax highlighting, that it is immediately slower than others. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
