[TxMt] Mail language scope

[Allan Odgaard]

On 25. Oct 2006, at 09:12, Quinn Comendant wrote:

> I'm wondering why when editing an email message (using the Mail  
> language) the scope is set to:
>
> 	text.mail.markdown
> 	text.html.markdown

Markdown is text.html.markdown. It allows to embed HTML so we decided  
to give it a scope to indicate that it was an HTML extension [1].

The Mail bundle includes Markdown, as we decided that Markdown was a  
pretty good match for the syntax used in emails, and there is some  
overlap between Markdown and emails (like increase/decrease quote  
level and reflow quoted text).

[1] Though today I would probably have made it just text.markdown,  
and made only the tags and stuff between, text.html.

> This results in html-style commands and snippets being executed  
> (comments command inserts <! -- -- > style). It seems like Text  
> should be the inherited scope, with modifications ( > set as the  
> comment mark).

But ‘>’ does not mark a comment, it marks quoted text (which can be  
multiple levels). There is a key equivalent for increasing and  
decreasing the quotation level (it mimicks the one used in Eudora and  
Mail).

> Which begs another question: how to import the Text language bundle  
> into the Mail bundle. (So that I can have plain text scopes and  
> thus syntax coloring).

Since the scope starts with text, everything scoped to text already  
works.

Which kind of syntax highlight do you want? Markdown already  
highlights quoted text, _italic_, **bold**, <http://macromates.com/>  
(URLs), > quoted text, * list items, and more.