Haris,
As you are the "local LaTeX bundle god." Do you think functionality like what I am trying to do would be useful in the main bundle? I have been thinking about doing some bundle or snippets for language grammar extension specifically targeted to LaTeX, as this is my main concern these days (or better call it major distraction from actually *writing* my thesis).
What I am trying o accomplish is a much more detailed markup/ assignemnt of scopes for possible theme development. I believe it would be very useful to have that much more markup available, especially since I am using many packages, environments -- just getting some visual feedback would be nice. Or something where you are editing some lines somewhere and you are wondering which environment you are currently in, just press ctrl-shift-P and it prints "meta.environment.myverycoolenv" -- much better would be a very light color change in that environment. (I like to have my list environments colored… and possibly with different colors for itemize, enumerate etc.)
And these thoughts brought me to the point where I figured I could create that "detour" to include my custom language grammar before the LaTeX language grammar was read.
Examples for my changes are: - recognize \vref and \prettyref as meta.label.reference - markup the different \headings with support.function.section.XXX.latex with XXX being part, chapter, section etc. - markup the acronym package - markup the fixme package so the \fixme{} is easy to spot.
Many of these changes are not essential and mostly eye candy. But then: I like eye candy ;) Marking up commands that are not standard TeX or LaTeX does have other benefits - if you have a different color for recognized commands vs. words that start with \ - you kind of get spell checking built in for commands ;) i.e. "no special color? Not spelled correctly"
I am still not very comfortable with the whole language grammar setup, but I am learning… a bit awkward is also the naming convention - as I need a better understanding of the underlying logic in order to apply stuff to latex. But in the end - it is just markup and as long as there is some convention you can easily use the markup - but names are names and if i call something text.latex or humftibunm makes no difference to the machine -- just convenience for us users. ;)
A couple questions still bog my mind, though: - Am I correct assuming that I can use a certain pattern just once? When I copy a rule from Latex.plist to my custom.plist - only the one encountered first gets to markup the text. - Is there a way to markup a pattern with more than just one scopes? Like for \begin{mycustomlist} set something like meta.environment.list *and* meta.package.custom
Good night ;)
Dan