Version 1.9: Fix #18, #33, #34, #36, #38, #40, #41, #44 and many other fixes. Add CHANGELOG.md

[samcv]

• Add CONTRIBUTING.md
• Automate the generation of all of the Q[…], q[…], qq[…] constructs using a script.
• Automate the generation of all #`[ ] multi-line comments using the same script.
• As an awesome bonus this allows us to add new types of brackets by only adding those brackets to the script for both comments and Q, q and qq

v1.9

Regex

• Let regex using m/ / or rx/ / appear anywhere and span multiple lines.
• Fancy single quotes in regex now actually quote /‘…’/. Fixes issue #45
• Let bare regex / / appear after =>. Mostly fixes issue #35

Heredocs

• Fix fancy heredoc delimiters like q:to/📝🔚/; Fixes issue #36

Quoting

• Get left single and right single quotation marks working with nesting ‘testing 1 ‘2’ 3’
• Get left double and right double quotation marks working with nesting “testing 1 “2” 3”
• Get left single and right single quotation marks working inside regex. Fixes issue #48
• Have the ｢this｣ quoting construct (which is a shortcut for Q[] quoting) work.
• Get halfwidth (standard) width corner brackets working for these strings: ｢nesting｢works｣｣. https://github.com/samcv/lalannguage-perl6fe/blob/testing/CHANGELOG.md#q-qq-and-q-quoting-constructs

  Q, qq and q quoting constructs

• Q, qq and q constructs using (( )), {{ }}, << >>, [ ], [[ ]], ( ), { }, / /, < > now properly escape delimiters and other escape sequences. Fixes issue #46
• Get Q, qq and q constructs using arbitrary non-word characters working. Example: q%…%
• Add Q, qq and q constructs using ‘…’ and “…”. Example: q“…”
• Add Q, qq and q constructs using ｢…｣, (((…))), {{{…}}}, [[[…]]] and「…」.

Variables

• Fix certain $<variables> inside interpolated strings not syntax highlighting. Fixes issue #41
• Make :token :regex :rule not explode the highlighter. Fixes issue #33
• Get all the forms of qq[] properly highlighting variables (interpolation). Fixes issue #18

Methods

• Highlight .categorize, .prepend, .parse-base, categorize-list and .antipairs methods. Fixes issue #38
• Add IO related methods.
• Make sure some more things highlight properly if used as keys for pairs.
• Add long, longlong, Pointer and CArray data types
• Make sure / As a metaoperator [/] doesn't break syntax highlighting Fixes #34

Comments

• Get all types of #`( Multiline comments working when there is leading whitespace before the #`( Fixes issue #44
• Get these multiline comments working: #`((( ))), #`{{{ }}}, #`[[[ ]]], #`<< >>, #`< >, #`“ ”, #`‘ ’

Pod

• Pod comments now highlight properly working when there is leading whitespace.
• Make sure pod after =para and =for immediately stop that block. Make sure formatting doesn't run on further. Fixes issue #51
• Make sure pod after all other abbreviated forms like =head highlight as comments as well. Fixes issue #50

[MadcapJake]

Very nice! At work now, but maybe we can get 1.9.0 released tonight! Will be home in approx 10 hours to merge this.

[samcv]

@MadcapJake today I will work on making the list of things fixed in the PR text be something nice we can use for the official changelog.

[samcv]

@MadcapJake v1.9 is ready to be release now 🌟 🎉

If I could also get the ability to add labels and close issues in the issue tracker that would be great. Thanks.

[zoffixznet]

@MadcapJake when is this getting merged? Since GitHub is using this, we need fixes badly.

Any way you could give @samcv contributor perms so they could release?