patchGNU nano - Patches: patch #6771, syntax highlighting for PPD

 
 

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patch #6771: syntax highlighting for PPD

Submitter:  Dave Lemonby <dreamlax>
Submitted:  Mon 09 Mar 2009 02:59:25 AM UTC
   
 
Priority:  3 - Low Status:  Wont Do
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  None

Thu 26 Apr 2018 07:40:49 AM UTC, comment #3: 

The thing is, nano fully loads all syntaxes at startup (if the user has not edited /etc/nanorc to pick only those syntaxes that he/she needs).  With every syntax I add, the load time increases.  This is not a good idea for a small editor like nano.  We will first have to devise a system so that nano only loads the syntax that it needs at that moment.  But even then, it will have to load upfront all the recognition regexes, so that it can know what syntax to load for which file.  These changes are not trivial.

So, although I would like to add as many syntaxes as possible that are somehow useful, currently I try to add only things that are useful to a good number of users.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Wed 25 Apr 2018 11:38:39 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I know this issue is ancient, but it's perhaps worth pointing out that vim includes syntax highlighting for PPD files. I gather the two editors tend to cater for different demographics but a few extra kilobytes never hurt anyone ;)

Dave Lemonby <dreamlax>
Sat 25 Apr 2015 03:54:29 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Printer Description files are something I think very few users will want to edit or even look at, so I don't think it's very useful to include the syntax file into nano's tarball.  Thanks for sharing, though.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Mon 09 Mar 2009 02:59:25 AM UTC, original submission:  

A file for PPD colour syntax highlighting. Does not handle multi-line strings (because I cannot figure out the correct combination of regular expressions), e.g.

*Duplex None/1-Sided: "
<< /Duplex true /Tumble false >> setpagedevice
"
*End

but handles everything else pretty well.

Dave Lemonby <dreamlax>

 

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Attached Files
file #17623:  ppd.nanorc added by dreamlax (288B - application/octet-stream - PPD syntax highlighting)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2018-04-25 bens SummaryPPD syntax highlighting syntax highlighting for PPD
    2015-04-25 bens Priority5 - Normal 3 - Low
        StatusNone Wont Do
        SummaryPPD colour syntax highlighting file PPD syntax highlighting
    2009-03-09 dreamlax Attached File- Added ppd.nanorc, #17623

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