Adding Ruby support to Source Navigator

[Syd Polk]

Ben Elliston wrote:
> 
> Yo Mo,
> 
>    Well, are you going to be around to help keep it working? I don't know
>    that would have a problem with adding support for ruby, I just want to
>    make sure we don't end up with an abandoned parser. I know Ben was
>    thinking about what changes would be needed to move the syntax
>    highlighter out of the core, but he would know more about that.
> 
> I've already started -- I have the configury in place to build the syntax
> highlighters as shared libraries with libtool.  The next step is to just add
> in the hooks to load these libraries with Tcl's "load" command at start-up.
> 
> I'm trying to decide whether all libraries matching a specific pattern (say,
> "*high*.so" should be loaded, or whether they should be named explicitly in
> the configuration file.  Thoughts?

Hmm. I hate configuration files. I would vote for a pattern.

Something like:

sn*high*.so on unix

and

sn*high*.dll on windows.



> 
> At any rate, this'll be a vast improvement.
> 
> Ben