From 378e890f2751e5fde1f1926e37f656ce06ce093d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Cullmann Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:43:13 +0200 Subject: yeah, Qt Creator uses KSyntaxHighlighting officially --- .../qt-creator-4-9-uses-ksyntaxhighlighting.md | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/posts/qt-creator-4-9-uses-ksyntaxhighlighting.md (limited to 'content/posts/qt-creator-4-9-uses-ksyntaxhighlighting.md') diff --git a/content/posts/qt-creator-4-9-uses-ksyntaxhighlighting.md b/content/posts/qt-creator-4-9-uses-ksyntaxhighlighting.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5b77f3b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/qt-creator-4-9-uses-ksyntaxhighlighting.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: "Qt Creator 4.9 uses KSyntaxHighlighting" +date: 2019-04-16T20:45:00+02:00 +draft: false +categories: [kde, qt, development] +tags: [kde, qt] +--- + +As you can read in the [official Creator 4.9.0 release announcement](https://blog.qt.io/blog/2019/04/15/qt-creator-4-9-0-released/), Qt Creator now uses the [KSyntaxHighlighting Framework](https://api.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/html/index.html) for providing the [generic highlighting](https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-highlighting.html#generic-highlighting). + +This is a nice step for the wider adoption of this [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) licensed part of the [KDE Frameworks](https://api.kde.org/frameworks/index.html). + +And this is not just an one-way consumption of our work. + +The framework got actively patches back that make it more usable for other consumers, too, like [Kate](https://kate-editor.org) ;=) + +If you want concrete examples, take a look at: + +* D18982: [prevent assertion in regex load](https://phabricator.kde.org/D18982) +* D18996: [Fix building with namespaced Qt](https://phabricator.kde.org/D18996) +* D18997: [Add functions returning all definitions for a mimetype or file name](https://phabricator.kde.org/D18997) +* D19200: [Return sorted definitions for file names and mime types](https://phabricator.kde.org/D19200) +* D19215: [Install DefinitionDownloader header](https://phabricator.kde.org/D19215) + +I hope this cooperation will continue in the future. +I thank the people working on Qt Creator that made this integration possible. +I hope the initial effort will pay of with less code for them to maintain on their own and more improvements of the framework for all users. -- cgit v1.2.3