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+Fixes should be posted to the Bug Tracker
+http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/
+
+Features should be posted to the Feature Request Tracker
+http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/
+
+Either send unified diffs (or patch files) or zip archives with whole files.
+Mercurial patch files are best as they include author information and commit
+messages.
+
+Questions should go to the scintilla-interest mailing list
+https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/scintilla-interest
+
+Code should follow the guidelines at
+http://www.scintilla.org/SciCoding.html
+
+Do not use SourceForge's Merge Request mechanism or message sending
+feature as no one is monitoring these.
+The neilh @ scintilla.org account receives much spam and is only checked
+occasionally. Almost all Scintilla mail should go to the mailing list. \ No newline at end of file
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compilers on diverse platforms with high performance and low resource usage.
Scintilla has stricter portability requirements to SciTE as it may be ported to
low capability platforms.
+ Scintilla code must build with C++03 which can be checked with "g++ --std=gnu++03".
+ SciTE can use C++11 features that are widely available from g++ 4.6, MSVC 2012 and clang 3.4 compilers.
</p>
<p>
To achieve portability, only a subset of C++ features are used.
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maintaining FORTRAN programs. The union feature is not used as it can lead to
non-type-safe value access.
</p>
+ <p>
+ The SCI_METHOD preprocessor definition should be used when implementing
+ interfaces which include it like ILexer and only there.
+ </p>
<h3>
Casting
</h3>
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<p>Ensure there are no warnings under the compiler you use. Warnings from other compilers
will be noted on the feature request.</p>
<p>sc.ch is an int: do not pass this around as a char.</p>
+ <p>The ctype functions like isalnum and isdigit only work on ASCII (0..127) and may cause
+ undefined behaviour including crashes if used on other values. Check with IsASCII before calling is*.</p>
+ <p>Functions, structs and classes in lexers should be in an unnamed namespace (see LexCPP)
+ or be marked "static" so they will not leak into other lexers.</p>
+ <p>If you copy from an existing lexer, remove any code that is not needed since it makes it
+ more difficult to maintain and review.</p>
+ <p>When modifying an existing lexer, try to maintain as much compatibility as possible.
+ Do not renumber lexical styles as current client code may be built against the earlier values.</p>
+ <h4>
+ Properties
+ </h4>
+ <p>
+ Properties provided by a new lexer should follow the naming conventions
+ and should include a comment suitable for showing to end users.
+ The convention is for properties that control styling to be named
+ lexer.&lt;lexername&gt;.* and those that control folding to be named
+ fold.&lt;lexername&gt;.*.
+ Examples are "lexer.python.literals.binary" and "fold.haskell.imports".
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The properties "fold" and "fold.comment" are generic and can be used by
+ any lexer.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ See LexPython for examples of properties in an object lexer and LexHTML for a functional lexer.
+ </p>
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</html>
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</h3>
<p>
Issues can be reported on the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/">Bug Tracker</a>
- and features requested on the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/">Feature Request Tracker</a>.
+ and features requested on the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/">Feature Request Tracker</a>.
</p>
<h3>
Scintilla Bugs