[TxMt] two things on language bundle syntax definitions

[Paul Bissex]

I'm enjoying learning how to tweak the language bundles, and there's a
lot of good information in the help files and the wiki. There's one
small thing so far that I haven't found a good way to do.  I'm playing
with adding support for heredoc-style embedded HTML in PHP document
and have added this to the PHP language syntax definition (version
2.0):

		{	name = 'meta.scope.heredoc';
			begin = '<<<HTML';
			end = '^HTML;';
			patterns = ( { include = 'text.html.basic'; } );
		}

(Hopefully I haven't made too many embarassing mistakes in those four
lines. It seems to work, anyway.)

What I'd like to do is also specially color the heredoc tags, just to
make the beginning and end of each block stand out. Is there a "right
way" to do that?

A second, minor point about documentation: the wiki says "With regard
to syntaxes...there is a help page on how to define these." But the
term "syntaxes" isn't actually used in the TextMate help. That didn't
stop me from finding the help pages, but this seems like something
that would be good to clean up in the wiki for consistency's sake.
What's the canonical name for these language syntax definitions?

thanks,

pb

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