Scintillua for SciTE4AutoHotkey

This project contains:

• AutoHotkey lexers for use with Scintillua.
• Additional files to facilitate installation in SciTE4AutoHotkey.
• Customisations to lexer.lua to improve stability with large .ahk files.

About Scintillua:

Scintillua adds dynamic Lua LPeg lexers to Scintilla. It is the quickest way to add new or customized syntax highlighting and code folding for programming languages to any Scintilla-based text editor or IDE. Scintillua was designed to be dropped into or compiled with any Scintilla environment.

Tested with:

• Scintillua 5.3
• SciTE4AutoHotkey 3.1 (SciTE 5.2.2)

Installation

Download Scintillua and install as below.

• Locate your SciTE home directory; the directory which contains SciTEUser.properties.
• Unpack Scintillua and move the lexers directory into your home directory.

Copy the files from this repository (excluding this readme) into the lexers directory, overwriting lexer.lua.

• Note: You may keep the original lexer.lua, but it will be more likely to crash if you open a very large .ahk file.

Add either the contents of lexers/lpeg_s4a.properties or the following line to your SciTEUser.properties file.

import lexers/lpeg_s4a

To fix highlighting of open documents not updating when the platform is switched, add either the contents of lexers/lpeg_s4a.lua or the following line to your UserLuaScript.lua file.

dofile(props['SciteUserHome']..'/lexers/lpeg_s4a.lua')

Restart SciTE4AutoHotkey.