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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everyone I am working on a major update to the syntax highlighting
in flpad.

Currently I use a reworked version of the example program on the FLTK
website for syntax highlighting.  This works ok... however it is not
easy to extend and basically that is a huge problem for me (I don't only
program in c/c++).

So anyhow, the way to do this is to basically write a lexical parser (or
use one in my case lexertk.hpp a single header file parser) and then
read a config file with the language's information (types, keywords,
block comments, defines, comments, etc...) and read the text buffer and
create the style text buffer contents.

So far it is going well making the initial 'plumbing' to do this.  That
said I will probably be working on this for a while (from time to time
when I have a moment).  But I really want flpad to be super small
(174KiB currently), fast, light and easy to modify.  I may have to
eventually rethink a few things to make it completely configurable (i.e.
add new language definitions only from the styles config file, nothing
needed to be hard coded to represent specific languages... though it is
needed right now for specific testing uses I have).

Summary:

flpad is going to get a much better (I hope) syntax highlighting system
that can eventually work for basically any language.

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Regards