Undocumented Feature?

[calm_observer]

I'm sure this has been asked/answered before - I have just started using sciTE, and have noticed that some of the sciTE AutoIt files (e.g. AutoIt3Help.au3) have lines such as;

#Compiler_OutFile=AutoIT3Help.a3x

Clearly these lines are treated as comments, but I have found no documentation on this feature. Would someone be kind enough to enlighten me

[flyingboz]

I'm sure this has been asked/answered before - I have just started using sciTE, and have noticed that some of the sciTE AutoIt files (e.g. AutoIt3Help.au3) have lines such as;

#Compiler_OutFile=AutoIT3Help.a3x

Clearly these lines are treated as comments, but I have found no documentation on this feature. Would someone be kind enough to enlighten me

Technically, they're not comments, but compiler directives - the # syntax is borrowed from c style syntax, i.e.

#include

These directives can affect compiler behavior , or the behavior of an editing environment (#region / #endregion)... Searching through the help files for 'directive' may well help you in determining what is useful for your needs.

Of course, if you want to write a script that incorporates all the directives into a section of the helpfile, that would be nice, too

edit: The pre-processor directives are listed in the "keyword" section of the manual.

Edited November 26, 2005 by flyingboz

[w0uter]

From SciTE

au3.keywords.special=#region #compiler_allow_decompile #compiler_au3check_dat #compiler_aut2exe \

#compiler_autoit3 #compiler_compression #compiler_icon #compiler_outfile #compiler_outfile_type \

#compiler_passphrase #compiler_prompt #compiler_res_comment #compiler_res_description \

#compiler_res_field #compiler_res_field1name #compiler_res_field1value #compiler_res_field2name \

#compiler_res_field2value #compiler_res_fileversion #compiler_res_legalcopyright \

#compiler_run_after #compiler_run_au3check #compiler_run_before #endregion

Edited November 26, 2005 by w0uter

[Jos]

They are Ignored by AutoIt3 and are used by compileau3.exe, which is a wrapper script for aut2exe.

See the Helpfile that came with the SciTE4AutoIt3 installer (Ctrl+F1)