[TxMt] Language Grammar for LaTeX log files

Michael Sheets mummer at whitefalls.org
Tue Apr 11 02:35:56 UTC 2006


> I realize there's a firstLineMatch field that solves this problem  
> in situations where a file type must have a "signature" on its  
> first line, but a lot of files types don't have this. Perhaps an  
> additional (but optional) field is necessary: lineMatch, for  
> example. Like firstLineMatch, this would be a regular expression,  
> but instead of matching only the first line, it would match any  
> line in the file. TextMate could run this regular expression  
> through a file when it's loaded, and if it gets a match, it would  
> know the true language of the file and could automatically set the  
> file type.

Scanning the entire file (then scanning it again when you choose a  
syntax) is probably a bit too taxing, especially for large files. It  
has been mentioned before to expand it to scan the first few lines  
however, though I don't know what allan's plans are for it.



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