Mail bundle language pattern help - TextMate

12 Nov 2006


      My language grammar is very rusty, so correct me where I'm wrong. I'm trying to modify the language for the Mail bundle so reply quotes have syntax coloring:
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I've added the following to the "patterns = {" section of the Mail language bundle:
{	name = 'comment.line.first';
    		match = '^[ \t]*(>[ \t]*){1}.*$\n?';
    	},
    	{	name = 'comment.line.second';
    		match = '^[ \t]*(>[ \t]*){2}.*$\n?';
    	},
    	{	name = 'comment.line.third';
    		match = '^[ \t]*(>[ \t]*){3}.*$\n?';
    	},
But in my mail text, on a line starting with > the scope still says:
text.mail.markdown
text.html.markdown
Further, since making these changes, whenever I try to get scope (control shift p) on a mail document TextMate goes AWOL:
PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VSIZE
16465 TextMate    145.8%  0:45.73   4   101 24990   740M+ 20.5M   614M+  963M+
I removed the Mail.tmbundle/Syntaxes/Mail.tmDelta file and it works again, so clearly something is wrong with my syntax above.
Quinn