RE: [cdt-dev] Assembly Syntax Highlight

[John Camelon <jcamelon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And if you can get it to work for inline
assembly, I would accept a patch for that as well. 

--
JohnC


cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/21/2005 11:09:22
PM:

> The short answer is that you can't.  You will have to modify
the
> assembly editor to provide a mechanism to extend the syntax
> highlighting.  This has been something we've been wanting to
do for a
> while but no one has had the time to pursue.
> 
> On the bright side, because we've been talking about it for so long,
we
> will happily accept patches that implement such system :-)  (Not
that we
> don't welcome patches in general of course.)
> 
> I would suggest that if you are serious about wanting to pursue this
you
> draft up an initial design for how you want the system to work and
> submit it to Bugzilla for feedback.
> 
> ___________________________________________
>  
> Chris Recoskie
> Software Designer
> Texas Instruments, Toronto
> http://eclipse.org/cdt
>  
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On
> > Behalf Of Alex Yin
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 5:42 PM
> > To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [cdt-dev] Assembly Syntax Highlight
> > 
> > Hi Jerome,
> > 
> > The short answer is "yes", since the work is based
on CDT. When we
> release
> > our product to customers, we will also make it open source.
> > 
> > But the first thing I am worrying right now is to figure out
how to
> > implement such a feature. When an assembly file (with extension
.asm
> or
> > .s)
> > is loaded in the editor, how do we "intercept" the
syntax highlighting
> > without modifying existing CDT plugins?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > --alex
> > 
> > >Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:22:34 +0100
> > >From: Jerome CORRENOZ <jerome.correnoz@xxxxxx>
> > >Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Assembly Syntax Highlight
> > >To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Message-ID: <43A902BA.7070404@xxxxxx>
> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
> > >
> > >Hi Alex,
> > >
> > >We are very interested for having such a feature. Do you
intend to
> > >retrofit this feature or the plugin to the CDT community
?
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Jerome
> > >
> > >Alex Yin wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > We have a special in-house assembly language with unique
syntax,
> and I
> > > > am working on the task to support its syntax highlighting
in CDT
> > > > assembly editor. The existing CDT plugin "org.eclipse.cdt.ui"
> > > > implements hard-coded assembly syntax highlighting
support in
> package
> > > > "org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor.asm",
class "AsmCodeScanner".
> How
> > > > to create a plugin to overwrite it without modifying
existing CDT
> > > > source code?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > --alex
> > > >
> > 
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