Bug #1749659 bought up again some modularity problems with Scintilla/SciTE. The WordList and PropSet classes are defined in Scintilla and used both in Scintilla and SciTE. SciTE requirements have led to some complex methods (such as GetNearestWords) being added even though they are not used in Scintilla. Some projects using Scintilla also use these classes which makes it hard to change them when SciTE needs a new feature.
I want to separate Scintilla and SciTE more. A new StringList class in SciTE will be equivalent to the current WordList. WordList drops methods that are not used in Scintilla. Scintilla gets to keep the name because WordList is used in all lexers including those distributed by others. All of the code responsible for iteration through a property set and for wild card file matching is moved from PropSet to SciTE's PropSetFile class. It would have been good to move over the variable expansion feature but unfortunately this has been exposed as SCI_GETPROPERTYEXPANDED. Projects that have used PropSet and WordList in similar ways to SciTE could either copy the classes from Scintilla into their code or use the modified classes from SciTE. In the future, I expect that SciTE will start using the standard C++ library rather than its own container classes and diverge further from Scintilla. Neil _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list Scite-interest@lyra.org http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
