[Idle-dev] User-defined "keywords"

[Arthur]

Hi all.

I had found that I missed, in IDLE, the ability to define domain specific
keywords for highlighting, ala Scite and TextPad.

I discover that doing so by hand is quite enough:

 -  provide ColorDelegator.py with lists of keywords,
    e.g.  KEYWORD2 = ["newkw1", newkw2"]

 -  add a line to make_pat:
        kw2= r"\b" + any("KEYWORD2", pygeokeys.KEYWORD2) + r"\b" 

 -  edit the make_pat return
        return kw + "|" + kw2 ....

-   provide self.tagdefs in LoadTagDefs a tag:
        "KEYWORD2": {'background':'ffffff','foreground':'#007FFF'}, 

The end.

What I am missing is only the ability to provide other users this option in
a reasonable way.  What would make sense to me is to the effect of a
config-kws.cfg in user Home with a simple syntax like:

[KEYWORD2}
'newkw1'
'newkw2'

Some default coloring scheme for a few levels of user-defined keywords.

And then the expansion of the HighLighting window to allow users to
customize the coloring of user-defined keyword levels.

Am I making sense?

Should it be pursued?

Art