Hello,
We would like to use SyntaxEditor by providing our own programming language definition. It would be great to have the ability to feed SyntaxEditor with a language definition file. This file could be use an EBNF-like format to provide syntax coloration.
Thanks & regards,
When using XML Tagger, XML Folding tagger with XML text document, the folding tagger freezes the UI while typing.
Generally in Visual Studio, the XML Folding tagger is processed in background while in SyntaxEditor this is done on the UI thread.
Several optimization options might be applied:
- process xml folding in background
- process folding similar to process search while typing - a period of inactivity time is needed to invalidate the search / folding
- caching - if the edit does not change the folding configuration, no processing and redrawing of folding is required
- some parts for extracting tooltip content and folded content should be optimized
We want to have the option to replace texts only in a selected part of the document.
Use Notepad++ as a reference to check this feature.
I do have some feedback on this component. I love it, but of course there are some areas where improvement can be made. For instance, in the screenshot below, I have highlighted some words where improvement can be made.
- ‘1,2,3,5’ – Literals in SSMS are Red
- ‘ER – 100% OF MEDICARE’ – OF is highlighted in Blue. It is contained in a literal and shouldn’t be highlighted
- ISNULL – Is a function and should be highlighted in Blue
- typing from right to left
- proper selection, navigation between RTL chars
- proper insert, delete, cut, copy, paste operations (modifications) sign
