Re: [Nano-devel] aggressive C color highlighting

[Alexey Toptygin]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, address@hidden wrote:

> I already have this implemented in an patch to 1.3.0. There were a few 
> bugs with some additional features that kept me from releasing it and I 
> lost my free time before resolving them. I will try to port the code 
> sans buggy features to the latest source and post it here.
>
> --
>
> Nano colorizes every match on the screen before moving on to the next 
> expression. Match overlap removal can be handled using two different 
> methods.
>
> 1) Apply all expressions to the current character pointer and increment 
> to the end of the match or to the next character when there is no match. 
> This method is quite simple and will give a significant speed boost.
>
> 2) Use the same technique as in the first method but store all matches 
> in a list and colorize the text using the list. The list must be rebuilt 
> each time the file is modified. This method uses more memory to store 
> the list but gives a huge speed increase when only viewing a file and no 
> loss in speed compared to the first method.

This is exactly what I had in mind. It would be nice to see your patch, 
even if it's broken.

                        Alexey