PreProcess Script before caching it for AutoComplete about ags HOT 1 OPEN

OK, I started to play with this idea but it isn't as simple as I hoped...

• Here's an example commit that gets rid of all ifdef stuff (I mostly deleted but commented a few things) ericoporto@813a186
• Also here's simply allowing the preprocessor to keep the comments: 35e282c

Now for the issues...

It looks like there is some reliance on the character index in the original script, between the autocomplete and scintilla. Additionally, the define macros in the AutoComplete only holds the name of the macro and not their values too - say you would get all imported headers to get the defines from their autocomplete data to then add to the macro definitions of the preprocessor so you can run the preprocessor and the autocomplete on top of it... It won't be as simple.

There is also a GetLocalVariableDeclarationsFromScriptExtract which you want to get the preprocessor to run too (I think?) but I don't know how yet.

It seems that doing this requires having some way to translate back and forward the character position between the original script as in the scintilla document and an in-memory preprocessed version of it, but this will then add a new layer of bugs. I wonder if there is a way to instead of using character ref use just line number, which then could match between both the non-preprocessed and the preprocessed version.

from ags.