Connect rehighlight tags in editor to index signal on tags change (#1916)

novelwriter/gui/doceditor.py

@@ -436,11 +436,6 @@ class GuiDocEditor(QPlainTextEdit):
 
         return True
 
-    def updateTagHighLighting(self) -> None:
-        """Rerun the syntax highlighter on all meta data lines."""
-        self._qDocument.syntaxHighlighter.rehighlightByType(BLOCK_META)
-        return
-
     def replaceText(self, text: str) -> None:
         """Replace the text of the current document with the provided
         text. This also clears undo history.
@@ -1034,6 +1029,13 @@ class GuiDocEditor(QPlainTextEdit):
             self.beginSearch()
         return
 
+    @pyqtSlot(list, list)
+    def updateChangedTags(self, updated: list[str], deleted: list[str]) -> None:
+        """Tags have changed, so just in case we rehighlight them."""
+        if updated or deleted:
+            self._qDocument.syntaxHighlighter.rehighlightByType(BLOCK_META)
+        return
+
     ##
     #  Private Slots
     ##

novelwriter/guimain.py

@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ class GuiMain(QMainWindow):
         SHARED.spellLanguageChanged.connect(self.mainStatus.setLanguage)
         SHARED.focusModeChanged.connect(self._focusModeChanged)
         SHARED.indexChangedTags.connect(self.docViewerPanel.updateChangedTags)
+        SHARED.indexChangedTags.connect(self.docEditor.updateChangedTags)
         SHARED.indexScannedText.connect(self.docViewerPanel.projectItemChanged)
         SHARED.indexScannedText.connect(self.projView.updateItemValues)
         SHARED.indexScannedText.connect(self.itemDetails.updateViewBox)
@@ -745,7 +746,6 @@ class GuiMain(QMainWindow):
             self.mainStatus.setStatusMessage(
                 self.tr("Indexing completed in {0} ms").format(f"{(tEnd - tStart)*1000.0:.1f}")
             )
-            self.docEditor.updateTagHighLighting()
             self._updateStatusWordCount()
             QApplication.restoreOverrideCursor()
 

tests/test_gui/test_gui_doceditor.py

@@ -1597,7 +1597,6 @@ def testGuiEditor_Tags(qtbot, nwGUI, projPath, ipsumText, mockRnd):
     docEditor.replaceText(text)
     nwGUI.saveDocument()
     assert nwGUI.projView.projTree.revealNewTreeItem(cHandle)
-    docEditor.updateTagHighLighting()
 
     # Follow Tag
     # ==========