BBEdit Language Module for LiveCode

[J. Landman Gay]

Wouldn't "if" and "end if" be a code block delimiter? And the same for "switch" and "end switch"? 

On December 22, 2014 5:28:01 AM CST, Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:
>It's not possible, I'm afraid.
>
>This is a "Codeless Language Module", which works by just declaring
>keywords 
>and grep patterns.  It's limited in what it can achieve; and in
>particular the 
>structural elements only work for languages which have a single block 
>delimiter.  Documentation:
>> Many languages group statements by enclosing them in block delimiters
>— { … } in C-family languages, or BEGIN … END in Pascal. These keys
>specify the opening and closing tokens for such blocks. BBEdit detects
>blocks (even nested ones) and makes it possible to fold them.
>
>Unfortunately as LiveCode isn't one of those languages, it's not
>possible.
>
>A long time ago someone-who-I-have-forgotten wrote a full-on Language
>Module 
>for Revolution (as it then was) - since it was custom coded with a full
>parser 
>it could do anything.  Unfortunately several versions of BBEdit ago
>there was 
>an incompatibility which meant that BBEdit crashed as soon as you made
>a 
>change to a file which this module was applied to; and the latest
>version of 
>BBEdit won't load it at all.
>
>It would still be possible for someone to repeat this task (and
>arguably since 
>we now have access to the source code of the actual LiveCode parser
>there 
>might be a place to start) - but I suspect that now that BB have
>introduced 
>the Codeless Language Modules, its unlikely anyone will feel the the
>small 
>extra gain is worth the very considerable extra effort.
>
>Ben
>
>
>On 21/12/2014 01:06, Brahmanathaswami wrote:
>> re: "if" and "switch" folding...
>>
>> I tried.  in the plist I had added this: under the language features
>section/dict
>>
>> Devin Asay wrote:
>>> Ben or Swami, do you know if it’s possible to add folding for repeat
>loops
>>> and if-then structures? It would sure be nice to collapse log,
>nested
>>> if-thens to get a sense of the whole handler or script flow.
>
>
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