[Qt-creator] [patch] C++ syntax highlighting and the (unused) 'style' format.

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:16:05AM +0900, paulo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I don't want to disturb your discussion, specially since I never red 
> either code, but isn't it a fact that vim does its syntax highlight 
> using post compilation loaded files.

There's a difference between syntax highlighting coming out of a couple
of regular expressions and syntax highlighting coming out of a C++
parser. 
 
> Is there a justification to hardcoding anything at all?

vim.cpp hardcodes things as well:

  syn keyword cppStatement    new delete this friend using
  syn keyword cppAccess       public protected private
  syn keyword cppType     inline virtual explicit export bool wchar_t

etc.

> Isn't vim performance actually better than the average with the extra 
> fame and fortune of having one of the widest language support in the 
> market? (AFAIK)
> 
> How does that approach compares with qtc?

It does something completely different, even if it looks pretty similar
in most cases. 

Andre'