"Philippe Lhoste" <Phi### [at] GMXnet> wrote in message news:3d50d7e2$1@news.povray.org...
> But I also saw in the comments that you may do a major rewrite of the
> Windows code...

Yes, but it's unlikely that I will replace CodeMax, unless I find something
better. And even if I do, that's years away.

> I will soon write a lexer for the POV-Ray syntax, supporting nested
> comments. Due to constraints to the lexing method, the nesting level will be
> limited. I feel that 3 levels is enough for most needs (commenting out a
> zone with comments, and commenting out again this zone) but if you think it
> needs more, I can go up to, say, 8 levels.

how about letting the user define the level (or at least at compile-time) ?

> If time allows, I would like to try and replace CodeMax by Scintilla in the
> 3.5 code, but I am not sure if this code is here to persist or if it would
> be a waste of time to hack it...

Feel free, you're welcome to try, the current code will be around for quite
some time yet.

regards,

-- Chris

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