Added StyleBitsNeeded property and implemented to return 5 for all lexers

except HTML, XML, ... (7) and Ruby (6).

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/ScintillaDoc.html b/doc/ScintillaDoc.html
index fc1871e65..218e99d89 100644
--- a/doc/ScintillaDoc.html
+++ b/doc/ScintillaDoc.html
@@ -452,7 +452,9 @@
      <b id="SCI_GETSTYLEBITS">SCI_GETSTYLEBITS</b><br />
      This pair of routines sets and reads back the number of bits in each cell to use for styling,
     to a maximum of 7 style bits. The remaining bits can be used as indicators. The standard
-    setting is <code>SCI_SETSTYLEBITS(5)</code>.</p>
+    setting is <code>SCI_SETSTYLEBITS(5)</code>.
+    The number of styling bits needed by the current lexer can be found with 
+    <a class="message" href="#SCI_GETSTYLEBITSNEEDED">SCI_GETSTYLEBITSNEEDED</a>.</p>
 
     <p><b id="TextRange">TextRange</b> and <b id="CharacterRange">CharacterRange</b><br />
      These structures are defined to be exactly the same shape as the Win32 <code>TEXTRANGE</code>
@@ -4293,6 +4295,8 @@ sptr_t CallScintilla(unsigned int iMessage, uptr_t wParam, sptr_t lParam){
      <a class="message" href="#SCI_GETPROPERTYINT">SCI_GETPROPERTYINT(const char *key, int default)</a><br />
      <a class="message" href="#SCI_SETKEYWORDS">SCI_SETKEYWORDS(int keyWordSet, const char
     *keyWordList)</a><br />
+     <a class="message" href="#SCI_GETSTYLEBITSNEEDED">SCI_GETSTYLEBITSNEEDED</a>
+    <br />
     </code>
 
     <p><b id="SCI_SETLEXER">SCI_SETLEXER(int lexer)</b><br />
@@ -4402,6 +4406,11 @@ sptr_t CallScintilla(unsigned int iMessage, uptr_t wParam, sptr_t lParam){
     There is nothing to stop you building your own keyword lists into the lexer, but this means
     that the lexer must be rebuilt if more keywords are added.</p>
 
+    <p><b id="SCI_GETSTYLEBITSNEEDED">SCI_GETSTYLEBITSNEEDED</b><br />
+     Retrieve the number of bits the current lexer needs for styling. This should normally be the argument
+     to <a class="message" href="#SCI_SETSTYLEBITS">SCI_SETSTYLEBITS</a>.
+     </p>
+
     <h2 id="Notifications">Notifications</h2>
 
     <p>Notifications are sent (fired) from the Scintilla control to its container when an event has