Open Sanian-Creations opened 1 year ago
Something like that is planned, yes
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 11:26 AM Sanian @.***> wrote:
Request
I know you're accepting PRs for highlighting, but that is highlighting which is built into the editor. I think a simple format for adding basic highlighting to languages that are not natively supported by the editor would go a long way into making it more pleasant to use. It could work through a separate file or folder for user defined languages and have syntax similar to the focus-config file.
I get that this is a big ask and not some small feature than can be easily added, but it's something to think about. Example
Here's how one such file could look like.
[file extensions] .somelanguage .sl
[operations] words reinterpret_cast const_cast dynamic_cast symbols + - * / % == != ! = && & || | >> > >= < << <=
[keywords] break case continue do else enum for if return struct switch union while
[types] bool char int short long float double signed unsigned void
[values] true false null
[comments]
This one's a bit weird, perhaps in this file you shouldn't be allowed to put comments on the same line as statements,
that way # can be used anywhere as a symbol without having to be escaped in weird ways
line_comment # block_comment / / nested_block_comment / /
block_comment is the c-type block comment, nested_block_comment is the jai-type block comment.
these should probably be mutually exclusive
[strings]
May provide multiple kinds of strings, as languages often have multiple types of strings.
Providing an escape character is optional
single_line_string " \ single_line_string ' \ multiline_string """ \ multiline_string ` \
I'm not sure how to add support for the other colors.
Perhaps these just don't get supported for user defined languages
[highlights]
???
[functions]
???
[punctuations]
???
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Decent ideas for syntax!
Looking forward to this! I'll probably wait for this feature before fully switching to use Focus, as I'd like syntax highlighting for Zig, but I don't have the jai
compiler so I can't really test out modifications to the source code (unless someone PRs src/langs/zig.jai
in the meantime).
Fyi the very first version of focus was written in Zig and had highlighting https://github.com/obiwanus/focus-zig :)
It didn't have any other features though, such as global search or mouse support, since that one was strictly for myself and I wanted a keyboard-focused editor
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 6:16 AM José M Rico @.***> wrote:
Looking forward to this! I'll probably wait for this feature before fully switching to use Focus, as I'd like syntax highlighting for Zig https://ziglang.org/, but I don't have the jai compiler so I can't really test out modifications to the source code (unless someone PRs src/langs/zig.jai in the meantime).
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Request
I know you're accepting PRs for highlighting, but that is highlighting which is built into the editor. I think a simple format for adding basic highlighting to languages that are not natively supported by the editor would go a long way into making it more pleasant to use. It could work through a separate file or folder for user defined languages and have syntax similar to the focus-config file.
I get that this is a big ask and not some small feature than can be easily added, but it's something to think about.
Example
Here's how one such file could look like.