Hey Gregg,
Check out my post early last night, Re: [REBOL] Re: quality rebol based editor.
Its kind of a hack job, but cool nonetheless.  Maybe we can steal some ideas
from each other.  I am interested to see how you did that Gregg.

BTW, late last night I think I figured some tricks on how to do a really fast
syntax highlight, though it requires some mean programming. There are a great
number of cheats, but I see the biggest speed gain by only handling color within
the visible area. Who cares about what you cant see? I would expect that you
could remap the color of a whole 80x50 character screen in under 100ms on a
200mhz box. Another cheat that helps alot is to use an incremental remapping
process, running in short durations.  Color remapping would have a visible
propagation with this technique, but you would not notice any UI delays.

--Ryan


Gregg Irwin wrote:

> Hi Cyphre,
>
> << But the problem is not only in color, also parsing the text for
> additional
> features such folding , syntax correction, tap completition and lots of
> other cool features I'm used from other editors is very time consuming tasks
> for rebol's parser.(especially when you are working with more than 3Kb text
> file) >>
>
> I haven't tried it on scripts of any size, but a while back I got the basics
> of "REBOLsense" working. I.e. when you type a /, it checks to see if the
> preceding word is an object and, if so, pops up a list filled with the words
> for that object (works on nested objects as well). If you type a space, it
> checks to see if the previous word is a function and, if so, it displays the
> interface definition for the function.
>
> --Gregg
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