I can answer on that as well; no, unfortunately not. Though I'm almost feeling inclined to learn since so many settings and stuff in TextMate and other programs rely on it. Also, I suppose it might one day make a complex task really easy. Any good suggestions on where to start? Is there a good "cover all" tutorial somewhere?

Andreas

On Aug 24, 2005, at 22:06 , Allan Odgaard wrote:

On 24/08/2005, at 5.26, Chris Ruzin wrote:

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[...] I can't wrap my head around how these language files are put together though

Asking out of interest to document this better: are you familiar with regular expressions?

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On 25/08/2005, at 8.40, Chris Ruzin wrote:

[...] What I'm wanting is to have EE tags folded and colorized even when HTML is the language.

What you should do is include the HTML language from your EE grammar. That way, it will, in addition to your rules, use all the rules of the HTML language, and thus colorize HTML as well (see below).

My definition is small, so I've copied it below for others to critique. Keep in mind I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

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{ scopeName = "source.ee";

Since this is embedded in HTML (as I understand), you probably want to name the scope something like “text.html.ee” -- that way, all snippets/commands etc. which have their scope set to “text.html” will also work when in EE files.

fileTypes = ( "html", "htm", "php" );
foldingStartMarker = "\\{(exp:([a-zA-Z0-9:]+)|if)\\b.*?\\}";
foldingStopMarker = "\\{/(exp:([a-zA-Z0-9:]+)|if)\\}";
patterns = (
    {   name = "constant.tag.ee";
        begin = "\\{/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_:]+)";
        end = "\\}";
        captures = { 1 = { name = "entity.name.tag.html"; }; };
        patterns = (
            [...]
            {   name = "string.single-quoted.ee";
                begin = "'";
                end = "'";
            },

Here you add:

{ include = "text.html.basic"; },

        );
    }
);

}

I defined EE tags as constants because I wanted them to stand out within HTML code. If you see things I'm doing wrong (which I'm sure I am), please give me some advice/tips/help.

I'd suggest two other approaches, 1) name them source.ee.embedded instead -- there's a style which set the background color of source in text, and thus, the tags will stand out (this assumes though, that they are source), 2) name them meta.ee-tag or something like that, and just add the style you want for that name in Fonts & Colors preferences.

But ultimately, the choice is of course yours! :)

On 25/08/2005, at 19.06, Chris Ruzin wrote:

Thanks for the help, Allan. I tried adding in the include where you mentioned, but it doesn't work. The EE tags are highlighted and folded, but not the HTML.

Sorry, I placed it wrong. I made it a child of “constant.tag.ee” rule, when it should have been a sibling.

Also, EE tags can be used in more than HTML. They can be used in XML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS and others. Will that mean I need to add all those other languages too, or will text.html.basic work for all of those?

hmm, that's a little problematic, because while the HTML language will take care of embedded PHP, CSS, and JavaScript, it will use a special set of (included) patterns for these subsets of the document, which doesn't include the EE rules.

So for this to really work, you'd have to duplicate the HTML syntax, and add the EE rules to that (the EE rules can be added to the repository part, and included from the 4 contexts (plain HTML, JS, CSS, and PHP), much like PHP is currently included in the CSS and JS sub-contexts.

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...

fileTypes = ( "html", "htm", "php" );
foldingStartMarker = "\\{(exp:([a-zA-Z0-9:]+)|if)\\b.*?\\}";
foldingStopMarker = "\\{/(exp:([a-zA-Z0-9:]+)|if)\\}";
patterns = (
    {   name = "constant.tag.ee";
        begin = "\\{/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_:]+)";
        end = "\\}";
        captures = { 1 = { name = "entity.name.tag.html"; }; };
        patterns = (
            [...]
            {   name = "string.single-quoted.ee";
                begin = "'";
                end = "'";
            },

Here you add:

            {   include = "text.html.basic"; },

...

        );
    }

Should have been here. Add a comma after the bracket above and insert: { include = "text.html.basic"; },

...

...

);

}