Hi everyone,

<not very interesting context> I'm currently working with a software called OpenMusic. It's based on an extension of Lisp and make massive use of CLOS.

I thus often have to define new classes. I don't know if it's CLOS or OpenMusic related, but class slots definition are quite ineffective. Typically, defining a class in OM would look like

(defclass* name (superclasses) ((<slot name> :accessor <slot name> :initarg :<slot name> :initform <default value> :type <type of the slot> :documentation "<obscure string>")) )

The boring part, that is slot definition, could of course benefit a lot of snippets. Typically, a <enter> short cut (or is it <return> ? Well, the keypad one.), as in LaTeX itemize environment, would be perfect.

So I'd like to define and extension of the Lisp language to match my need. I already had a slight problem and expect more to come (like when I started to write one for the GP language).

So here is the first one that I met. As you can see above, class are usually defined by defclass* instead of defclass. I didn't find in the documentation how to match the * character. Escaping the * with , as in

{ name = 'meta.class.lisp.openmusic'; match = '(\b(defclass|defclass*)\b)(\s+)((\w|-|!|?)*)'; captures = { 2 = { name = 'storage.type.class.lisp.openmusic'; }; 4 = { name = 'entity.name.class.lisp.openmusic'; }; # Of course, there are still plenty of things missing. };

apparently won't work. What did I wrote wrong in that part ? It's just the meta.function.lisp rewritten and it does what expected when used with "defclass".

Thanks for your help, Édouard

PS : I know I could perfectly avoid such troubles by creating a tab triggered snippet, but that's just a nice occasion to get in TM languages definition a bit further.