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

[Jacob Carlborg]

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.

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/Jacob Carlborg