A new syntax definition format for Sublime

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/syntax.html

by benesch • 11 years ago

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reitanqild• 11 years ago

Gave it 30 seconds (this is not something I use currently.)

Seems easy to understand.

And most of all I came to say glad to see Sublime Text moving forward again.

rshaban• 11 years ago

This is much much better than the hassle I had to go through building Sublime syntax support for a language a few months ago. Glad to see the Sublime team are making themselves competitive!

cheshire137• 11 years ago

Team? I think it's just one dude.

brianpgordon• 11 years ago

One entire dude? It seems like he works on it for about an hour a week.

pmalynin2• 11 years ago

So pretty much the same thing we had before, except instead of writing JSON you write YAML

ben336• 11 years ago

previously language syntax used TextMates xml based tmLanguage files for syntax highlighting.

Example: https://github.com/Benvie/JavaScriptNext.tmLanguage/blob/mas...

pmalynin2• 11 years ago

Well, sure it 'uses" xml bases representation, but you can actually write the syntax in JSON and Sublime Text will compile it down to XML.

Example: https://github.com/Nessphoro/sublimeassembly/blob/master/Ass...

Output: https://github.com/Nessphoro/sublimeassembly/blob/master/Ass...

ksherlock2• 11 years ago

Pushing and popping a context is a pretty big deal.

sebular2• 11 years ago

Nice! I just returned to Sublime after getting fed up with Atom's performance and stability issues, and I can't believe it took me this long to switch back.

One thing that bothers me, maybe more than it should-- On OS X, I like opening directories for editing by using the open command:

open [folder] -a Sublime\ Text

This is great, but I hate that Sublime Text has a long, two-word name, requiring me to escape the space or use quotes (it was even worse when I had to type Sublime\ Text\ 2).

I've tried aliasing and symlinking "sublime" as a shortcut, but since the open command uses Launch Services to find the application name, none of that shell trickery works. This is the only thing preventing complete text editor zen :(

slig• 11 years ago

Have you tried this? https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html Works flawlessly here on Sublime 3 on OS X 10.10.

And then

    $ subl .

to open the current folder.

sebular2• 11 years ago

Ha! After complaining I figured I'd give one more shot at solving this and I came across that same technique. Then I came back here to update my post and of course people were already giving me that advice.

Zen achieved.

raziel2p2• 11 years ago

Might be a version 3 thing, but I can just type subl [folder].

kbd• 11 years ago

Just associate .txt files with Sublime Text and then you can type 'open -t {file}' or 'open -t {directory}' to open in Sublime Text. I'll often do 'open -t .' to open the current directory, then CMD+P to open any file in the directory hierarchy.

skj• 11 years ago

  function open_st2 {
    open $1 -a Sublime\ Text
  }

CraigJPerry• 11 years ago

How does atom handle this, just textmate language files?

raziel2p2• 11 years ago

This looks great. A lot of Sublime Text syntax definitions are buggy and/or out of date, in part due to the awfully tedious task of maintaining tmLanguage syntax files.

Hopefully this will be combined with putting all the official sublime text syntax definitions on github so there can be more continuous improvements coming from the large community.

Or just stop including syntax definitions with the editor entirely, make people use packages/plugins (though this is less likely to happen, Sublime is popular in part because it works so well out of the box).

strangename• 11 years ago

Nice. Respect is likely due to Guillermo; this looks derived from his PackageDev project. The push/pop context action looks better than the begin/end region system, though maybe only a bit in convenience.

msoad• 11 years ago

I am very happy with Sublime. The only thing I really wish for is AST based autocomplete and code jumps. I know it's slow and won't really work for JavaScript but other editors did something about it. Specially with ES6, it's easier to resolve module imports.

josephpmay• 11 years ago

Is Sublime back in active development? Last I had heard, it basically hadn't been updated since 2013.

rrreese• 11 years ago

There have been a bunch of new builds recently: http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev

tmrmn• 11 years ago

This looks awesome. But is there a technical reason why it's using YAML when virtually every other sublime specific config file is using JSON?

A new syntax definition format for Sublime

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