RPM Specfile support in atom

Add syntax highlighting and snippets to package.spec files in Atom.

Example

This particular highlighting scheme is based on the KDE Project coloring and spec.nanorc by Asterios Dramis.

Background

RPM Package Manager files are the packaging format of many popular Linux distributions such as RedHat and CentOS, openSuSE and the Fedora Project. RPMs use a specfile to describe how to take upstream sources and deploy them onto a Linux operating system.

A specfile ends in .spec and is usually named for the project's source code that is to be deployed. The process of making an RPM from the various parts, known as building, is driven by instructions in the specfile.

High quality specfiles are a key part of providing repeatable and consistent experiences delivering programs, fonts, graphics, utilities and even entire operating system environments to the end user or system administrator. Syntax highlighting editors are a method of helping improve the quality of edited files through catching simple but well-hidden typos, syntax errors and misplaced keywords.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please fork and make any pull requests needed for corrections, new snippets or grammar tweaks.