[TxMt] Re: Help funding my TextMate 2 code sprint

On 2013-03-26 00:39, Meryn Stol wrote:

While I guess internal changes would would be necessary to support a variety of parsers, I don't think increased autocompletion accuracy requires a new API, or am I mistaken? I think a bundle command could could just take the entire file contents plus the caret position as input for a script. Script could parse the source code by itself, then return some suggestions (using Dialog2).

I guess the script could invoke libclang or similar. But it doesn't sound like a good idea to have to invoke an external process each time you want autocompletion and certainly not for syntax highlighting. That would be really, REALLY slow. A lexer needs to be extremely fast.