Is it possible to make a keyword / variable / predefined name with delimeter?

[Daniel Paz]

So I want for example to keyword with the following regex: "keyword-keyword" e.g. "Hello-World", but apparently, the char "-" is not allowed to be used as keyword.

I also tried the follkowing:

<key>BBLMKeywordPatterns</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>RunKind</key>

<string>com.barebones.bblm.variable</string>

<key>Pattern</key>

<string>[a-zA-Z0-9]+\-[a-zA-Z0-9]+</string>

        </dict>
        </array>

but it does not work

any solution?

[Christopher Waterman]

Daniel,

Did you add “-“ to Identifier and Keyword Character Class?

<key>Identifier and Keyword Character Class</key>

<string>A-Za-z-</string>

—Chris

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[Daniel Paz]

It doesn't work if it includes "-" and numbers, for example "Hello-5" even if I write:

<key>Identifier and Keyword Character Class</key>

<string>A-Za-z0-9-</string>

[jj]

Hi Daniel,

Here is a minimal Codeless Language Module for an hypothetical "Daniel" language that accepts hyphens in keywords.

Save it as Daniel.plist in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Language Modules.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

    <key>BBEditDocumentType</key>

    <string>CodelessLanguageModule</string>

    <key>BBLMColorsSyntax</key>

    <true/>

    <key>BBLMIsCaseSensitive</key>

    <false/>

    <key>BBLMLanguageCode</key>

    <string>Dani</string>

    <key>BBLMLanguageDisplayName</key>

    <string>Daniel</string>

    <key>BBLMSuffixMap</key>

    <array>

        <dict>

        <key>BBLMLanguageSuffix</key>

        <string>.daniel</string>

        </dict>

    </array>

    <key>BBLMKeywordList</key>

    <array>

        <string>step-by-step</string>

        <string>Juan-les-Pins</string>

        <string>2021-08-24</string>

    </array>

    <key>Language Features</key>

    <dict>

        <key>Identifier and Keyword Character Class</key>

        <string>\p{L}\p{N}\-</string>

    </dict>

</dict>

</plist>

It currently only support 3 keywords:

 •  step-by-step

 • Juan-les-Pins

 • 2021-08-24

HTH

Jean Jourdain

[Daniel Paz]

thanks it worked! btw how can i create new colors? for example if i go to prefrences -> text colors I can see colors of "CSS", "HTML" and more... how can I create one as well? or define fixed colors in my plist?

[Daniel Paz]

btw, if I add

<key>String Pattern</key>

<string>(?x:

('[^\s\[\]]*)

)

</string>

it doesn't work anymore.

[jj]

Try wrapping the regular expression in a CDATA, like so:

        <string><![CDATA[(?x)

            ('[^\s\[\]]*)

        ]]></string>

[Daniel Paz]

i tried, but the numbers of "-" not working, only chars.

[jj]

Apparently BBEdit's default numbers highlighter has precedence over keywords'.

Try adding an empty number pattern to disable it.

    <key>Language Features</key>

    <dict>

        ...

        <key>String Pattern</key>

        <string><![CDATA[(?x)

            ('[^\s\[\]]*)

        ]]></string>

        <key>Number Pattern</key>

        <string></string>

    </dict>

[Daniel Paz]

Thanks it worked!