Julia lexer for editor

[Alexey-T]

I see you 've starred CudaText, it has the Julia lexer in addons. Is it working OK, or has some issues? @tlienart

[tlienart]

Hello! CudaText was mentioned here: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-anyone-using-textadept-as-their-editor-of-choice-for-julia/41255/39 so I gave it a shot (I'm always curious about new editors which are 'simple' and fast and I think the people in that thread are too).

At the moment I've not used CudaText for Julia (Atom and VS Code provide an integration Julia REPL which helps a lot with development) but I have used it with other languages such as Python and it worked great for me, thanks for making and open-sourcing this, it's awesome!

[tlienart]

I just tried opening a Julia project, here are some quick comments (I could make those in your repo if you preferred):

--> ideally the :name should be highlighted as strings, the const keyword should be highlighted too as well as function indicators (like LittleDict) though that last one matters less. Also the nothing, false, etc keywords

--> keywords like function, if, end, etc should be highlighted, functions should ideally be highlighted, modules (e.g. Base. and Core. should too + missing keyword

--> text between """ should be highlighted as string, #= ... =# indicates a multi-line comments

I could give you more detailed feedback on this at the main repo if that's useful?

Note: I think the most up to date description of the syntax is in highlights.js (https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/blob/master/src/languages/julia.js)

[Alexey-T]

yes, please copy that into my repo - https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText/issues to not miss it. or I can copy this?