Tk::CodeText - a TextUndo widget with syntax highlighting capabilities

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
- METHODS
- SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING
- WRITING PLUGINS
- AUTHOR
- BUGS
- TODO
- SEE ALSO

# NAME

Tk::CodeText - a TextUndo widget with syntax highlighting capabilities

# SYNOPSIS

     use Tk;
     require Tk::CodeText;

     my $m = new MainWindow;

     my $e = $m->Scrolled('CodeText',
            -disablemenu => 1,
            -syntax => 'Perl',
            -scrollbars => 'se',
     )->pack(-expand => 1, -fill => 'both');

     $m->configure(-menu => $e->menu);
     $m->MainLoop;

# DESCRIPTION

Tk::CodeText inherits Tk::TextUndo and all its options and methods. Besides syntax highlighting, methods are provided for commenting and uncommenting as well as indenting and unindenting a selected area, matching pairs of braces, brackets and brackets and curlies and automatic indenting of new lines.

Syntax highlighting is done through a plugin approach. Currently there is support for Perl, Pod, HTML and Xresources. Adding languages is a matter of writing plugin modules. Theoretically this is not limited to programming languages. The plugin approach could also provide the possibility for grammar or spell checking in spoken languages.

# OPTIONS

Name: autoindent
Class: Autoindent
Switch: -autoindent
  Boolean, when you press the enter button, should the next line begin at the same position as the current line or not. By default false.

Name: commentchar
Class: Commentchar
Switch: -commentchar
  By default ``#''.