Replace mcedit syntax highlighting engine with an external (?) library

[mc-butler]

Important

This issue was migrated from Trac:

Origin	https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/2931
Reporter	birdie (aros@….com)
Mentions	gotar@….pl, mooffie@….com (@mooffie), teresaejunior@….com

MC's internal syntax highlighting engine has many serious limitations like it's unable to highlight embedded quotations, it breaks on new lines, etc. etc. etc.

Colorer's can be licensed under GPL 2.0, LGPL 2.1 so it's fully compatible with MC's own license.

Colorer can be used as an external library, it also has a C language API.

http://colorer.sourceforge.net/mc.html

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Nov 18, 2012 at 11:01 UTC (comment 1)

• Priority changed from major to trivial

[mc-butler]

Changed by gotar (gotar@….pl) on Nov 28, 2012 at 12:19 UTC (comment 2)

• Cc set to gotar@….pl

Does it support mcview? mc still lacks coloring in internal viewer (#1849).

[mc-butler]

Changed by mooffie (@mooffie) on Apr 6, 2015 at 19:25 UTC (comment 3)

• Cc changed from gotar@….pl to gotar@….pl, mooffie@….com

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Changed by teresaejunior (teresaejunior@….com) on May 16, 2016 at 0:22 UTC (comment 4)

There is also http://www.andre-simon.de/doku/highlight/en/changelog.php, which is actively maintained.

[mc-butler]

Changed by teresaejunior (teresaejunior@….com) on May 16, 2016 at 0:25 UTC (comment 5)

• Cc changed from gotar@….pl, mooffie@….com to gotar@….pl, mooffie@….com, teresaejunior@….com

[mc-butler]

Changed by zaytsev (@zyv) on Jun 16, 2017 at 11:56 UTC (comment 6)

Related discussion: #3830.