Ha, sorry to imply that 2.0 needed to be the "achieve world peace" release. I just thought it was pretty common practice to have multi- line function prototypes, which would make this bug a pretty big deal. But I guess you're right - it's features vs. performance, so there will always be trade-offs. Thanks for the explanation!
John
On Jun 9, 2007, at 1:29 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 8. Jun 2007, at 18:51, John Kooker wrote:
wow, not even for 2.0?
No, not even for 2.0. As said, this is a technical limitation!
If you allow patterns to match more than a single line, you have a situation where a change, no matter where it is done in the document, can affect every other part of the document.
From a performance perspective this is bad because technically TM would then have to re-parse your entire document, each time you do a single change.
Other text editors can live with this, that is, they may re-parse from 5 lines above the caret, then after .5s of idle time, re-parse the full document, or sometimes they may just leave it to the user to fix out-of-sync syntax highlight.
In TextMate the parser is used for more than syntax highlighting, it is for example used to decide how to interpret your key strokes, that means if the current line is not parsed, TM cannot decode your key stroke -- in practice it could rely on outdated information, but that leads to a situation where the exact same key sequence can give different results (depending on whether or not the parser finished in time, or whether or not the outdated information is “good enough”).
Maybe some good heuristics for this can be created, but 2.0 is not going to be the “fix all problems ever reported”-release, which your reply seems to imply it is.
On Jun 8, 2007, at 12:40 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 8. Jun 2007, at 02:10, John Kooker wrote:
My C/C++ code doesn't always get parsed correctly, and I think I've narrowed the problem down: the bundle doesn't seem to like it when my parentheses are on separate lines. An example:
Function prototypes are only matched when they are on a single line. This is a technical limitation of the parser, and unlikely to go away.
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