[Lazarus] Console App Development

[Martin Schreiber]

Am Samstag 13 August 2011, 19:59:15 schrieb Martin:
> On 13/08/2011 17:49, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > My other concern was memory consumption. I know I have no clue as to
> > what Lazarus IDE everything does, but I can say that for the generate
> > usage of loading a project with some 5-15 units open, code navigating
> > here and there etc.. the memory consumption of Lazarus is by
> > magnitudes more than MSEide. Regarding what I was test or using in the
> > editor, both IDE's had the same functionality.
> 
> Well one thing, I noted is that MSEide does not seem to deal with nested
> comments, that opens the question how much context the remaining
> highlighting takes into account.

The default pascal.sdef file is "Delphi compatible". Please change in 
apps/ide/syntaxdefs/pascal.sdef
"
scope comment1 comment
 endtokens
  '}'
"
to
"
scope comment1 comment
 calltokens
  '{' comment1
 endtokens
  '}'
"
for nested comments.

> The more context is needed, the more time and memory it will cost.
> 
MSEide does not store context for syntax highlighting after the source has 
been colored. The editor grid stores "richstringty":
"
 richstringty = record
  text: msestring;
  format: formatinfoarty;
  flags: richflagsty;
 end;
"
"format" stores the color and font info of the string.
The parser for code navigation is independent from syntaxhighlighting.

Martin