Syntax highlighting using LMTX
Hi all, There are a few technical hurdles with using the t-vim module in LMTX. First, users need to install the module using externally defined shell scripts. Second, it's awkward to communicate to users how to install it, especially for Windows users. Third, it likely requires installing vim, as a separate step. Fourth, making general-purpose XML setups that optionally rely on syntax highlighting when it is an optional install is a little laborious. If installing a module was as easy as "install.sh --module=t-vim" then that would leap over most hurdles. Although there'd still be a dependency on installing vim. Of course, it'd be pretty sweet if ConTeXt itself could automatically install the necessary module when encountered (or provide a command-line option to grant permissions to do so), but I understand that that would be a hefty undertaking. The following pages discuss creating syntax highlighters: - https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_text - https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Custom_pretty_printer - https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/333620/2148 How would you go about creating a syntax highlighter for Java that can work with LMTX? Specifically, I'd like to know: - Where do the files need to be saved? (e.g., tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/) - What file name is required? (e.g., buff-imp-java.lua and buff-imp-java.mkiv) - How is the parser loaded? (e.g., \loadmarkfile{buff-imp-java} or \installprettytype[java][java]) Ultimately, this is going to be used with XML snippets along the lines of: <pre><code class="language-java">public final class Example { public static void main( String args[] ) { } }</code></pre> Having the ability to dynamically define the requisite start/stop environments based on the class attribute would be rather convenient. Thank you!
On Thu, 2 Dec 2021, Thangalin via ntg-context wrote:
Hi all,
There are a few technical hurdles with using the t-vim module in LMTX. First, users need to install the module using externally defined shell scripts. Second, it's awkward to communicate to users how to install it, especially for Windows users. Third, it likely requires installing vim, as a separate step. Fourth, making general-purpose XML setups that optionally rely on syntax highlighting when it is an optional install is a little laborious.
If installing a module was as easy as "install.sh --module=t-vim" then that would leap over most hurdles.
You can always install manually as follows: cd $TEXMFHOME wget https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/context/contrib/context-{filter,vim}.zip unzip context-{filter,vim}.zip
Although there'd still be a dependency on installing vim.
Yes, that's a trade-off that the vim module makes. But, last time I used Windows (some 10 years ago), installing vim was relatively easy. Download the install from vim's website, and click next a couple of times.
How would you go about creating a syntax highlighter for Java that can work with LMTX?
I'll let others answer that. Had I known that, I wouldn't have written a module to do syntax highlighting :-) In the end, it also depends on how refined a syntax highlighter you want. Writing a simple keyword based highlighter is relatively easy. See, for example, scite-context-lexer-cpp.lua in the distribution, which is based on the CPP lexer in scite. Aditya
On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 12:07 -0500, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
On Thu, 2 Dec 2021, Thangalin via ntg-context wrote:
Hi all,
There are a few technical hurdles with using the t-vim module in LMTX. First, users need to install the module using externally defined shell scripts. Second, it's awkward to communicate to users how to install it, especially for Windows users. Third, it likely requires installing vim, as a separate step. Fourth, making general-purpose XML setups that optionally rely on syntax highlighting when it is an optional install is a little laborious.
If installing a module was as easy as "install.sh --module=t-vim" then that would leap over most hurdles.
You can always install manually as follows:
cd $TEXMFHOME wget https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/context/contrib/context-{filter,vim}.zip unzip context-{filter,vim}.zip
Although there'd still be a dependency on installing vim.
Yes, that's a trade-off that the vim module makes. But, last time I used Windows (some 10 years ago), installing vim was relatively easy. Download the install from vim's website, and click next a couple of times.
How would you go about creating a syntax highlighter for Java that can work with LMTX?
I'll let others answer that. Had I known that, I wouldn't have written a module to do syntax highlighting :-) In the end, it also depends on how refined a syntax highlighter you want. Writing a simple keyword based highlighter is relatively easy. See, for example, scite-context- lexer-cpp.lua in the distribution, which is based on the CPP lexer in scite.
I wrote an answer here some time ago. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/333508/custom-pretty-printer-in-cont... Cheers, Henri
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By the way: there exists a module which is capable of highlighting Java:
https://modules.contextgarden.net/cgi-bin/module.cgi/ruid=12720986/action=vi...
Cheers, Christoph
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On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 12:07 -0500, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
On Thu, 2 Dec 2021, Thangalin via ntg-context wrote:
Hi all,
There are a few technical hurdles with using the t-vim module in LMTX. First, users need to install the module using externally defined shell scripts. Second, it's awkward to communicate to users how to install it, especially for Windows users. Third, it likely requires installing vim, as a separate step. Fourth, making general-purpose XML setups that optionally rely on syntax highlighting when it is an optional install is a little laborious.
If installing a module was as easy as "install.sh --module=t-vim" then that would leap over most hurdles.
You can always install manually as follows:
cd $TEXMFHOME wget https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/context/contrib/context-{filter,vim}.zip unzip context-{filter,vim}.zip
Although there'd still be a dependency on installing vim.
Yes, that's a trade-off that the vim module makes. But, last time I used Windows (some 10 years ago), installing vim was relatively easy. Download the install from vim's website, and click next a couple of times.
How would you go about creating a syntax highlighter for Java that can work with LMTX?
I'll let others answer that. Had I known that, I wouldn't have written a module to do syntax highlighting :-) In the end, it also depends on how refined a syntax highlighter you want. Writing a simple keyword based highlighter is relatively easy. See, for example, scite-context- lexer-cpp.lua in the distribution, which is based on the CPP lexer in scite.
I wrote an answer here some time ago.
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/333508/custom-pretty-printer-in-cont...
Cheers, Henri
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