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Compare Editor without Semantic Highlighting [message #1702306]

Tue, 21 July 2015 13:16

Jiang Li

Messages: 27
Registered: November 2014

Junior Member

I want to compare two documents of my DSL. But all of the "semantic highlightings" don't work. Only the highlightings of tokens are shown.

In my DSL I have implemented "ISemanticHighlightingCalculator" to highlight my semantic model.

How can I show the semantic highlighting?

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Re: Compare Editor without Semantic Highlighting [message #1702511 is a reply to message #1702306]

Wed, 22 July 2015 19:03

Christian Dietrich

Messages: 14665
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Since the compare is done on file basis and not on project basis the file parsed has not enhough context to be more that just parsed (linking , sem highlighting .... makes no sence since there is no context)

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Re: Compare Editor without Semantic Highlighting [message #1702541 is a reply to message #1702511]

Thu, 23 July 2015 04:35

Ed Willink

Messages: 7655
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

Are you sure?

Recent innovations supported by GIT and used by EMF Compare support a
coherent model of multiple files.

The intent is to ensure that a group of related files are committed as a
group rather than piecemeal and consequently inconsistently.

This a very challenging and worthy goal. It is unfortunately enabled by
default causing difficulties when the more traditional file-level
compare is required.

That said the default model level begaviour should support semantic
highlighting.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 22/07/2015 21:03, Christian Dietrich wrote:
> Since the compare is done on file basis and not on project basis the
> file parsed has not enhough context to be more that just parsed (linking
> , sem highlighting .... makes no sence since there is no context)

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