Well, I have to admit: I didn’t spent much time developing the PHP plugin for KDevelop these past weeks. Instead I hacked on Kate:
HighlightInterface
I added another Kate interface, this time to access some of the highlighting information:
- what’s the Attribute for a given default style right now? Default styles are those known from syntax files, e.g.
dsKeyword, dsFunction,… - what are used Attributes in a given line and what range do they occupy?
- what modes do we embed? E.g. PHP embeds HTML, JavaScript, CSS, …
- what mode is used at a given Cursor position?
This made it possible to port the “Export to HTML” action to a real plugin. If you come up with other output formats I might add them, I wondered about LaTeX support… might do this at some point.
This should also make it possible to use KatePart in other applications and than export the highlighting to a different format, e.g. a Flake shape for Koffice. Afaik this is actually planned by The_User - lets see if it works out!
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Hey everybody!
If you are a KDevelop and/or Kate/Kwrite developer and do not read the mailing lists: There’s a hack sprint coming up in Berlin in 2010. I think there’ve been enough sprints in Berlin already so that you know it’s a great city for such an event. Though this time it won’t be at KDAB or Nokia offices, but at the Physics Faculty of the FU-Berlin. Since I (currently) work there as an IT admin, it was my first choice and worked out. I hope it will be a good location for the meeting. If you want to attend, vote on doodle:
http://www.doodle.com/vkyh9up9794zr4s8
But you probably also should register either on the KDevelop or KWrite mailing lists so I have some kind of way to contact you.
PS: in unrelated news I’ll do an internship at KDAB next year! yay
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So, I kinda messed up my desktop right after the upgrade to karmic, because I was too greedy for performance and converted my root file system to ext4. Well, that worked like a charm on my laptop, but it broke my desktop. This is in no way karmic’s fault, it’s my own misbehavior. Thankfully I could rescue most of my data.
Since I’d had to reinstall anyways, I decided to finally try out Archlinux. I find the rolling release mantra very intriguing. Together with a “simpler” packaging, namely no splitting between -dev and -dbg packages like debian/ubuntu does, this is destined to be a good environment for a developer. I always hated it to track down missing -dev packages when compiling software. And don’t get me started on outdated software in repos… I just compiled kdelibs and the only missing build dependency was hspell, that I don’t need anyways. Under Jaunty I had to compile stuff from kdesupport to fulfill updated dependencies. And the list of not-found optional dependencies was huge, since I did not spent time to install all those -dev packages by hand…
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Just a quicky: I wrote a little plugin for KTextEditor which supplies you with basic error checking when you save documents. Currently only PHP (via php -l) and JavaScript (via JavaScript Lint) are supported.
Screenshots
Requirements
- usual tools for compiling C++, e.g. gcc.
- cmake
- Qt development packages, i.e. under Ubuntu:
sudo aptitude install libqt4-dev - KDE 4.2 with development packages for kdelibs and kdebase, i.e. under Ubuntu:
sudo aptitude install kdebase-dev kdebase-workspace-dev kdelibs5-dev. Note: You’ll need the experimental KDE 4.2 packages activated as of now, see for example the Kubuntu news on KDE 4.2 RC1 for hints. - proper setup of environment variables, read this techbase article for more information. the
.bashrc linked there should be enough for most people - For PHP support: a PHP executable which supports the
-l switch for linting - For JavaScript support: a JavaScript Lint executable, you could download and compile the sources for example.
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Not only KDevelop gets better and better PHP support — the Kate PHP syntax file also got a few new features and fixes over the last weeks. The good thing is of course that all users of KWrite, Kate, Quanta, KDevelop and other editors leveraging the Katepart benefit from these changes.
Improved HereDocs
screenshot of improved highlighting in PHP heredocs
I went over PHP related bugs on bugs.kde.org today and spotted one that was fairly easy to fix:
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