AsciiDoc syntax highlighting

[Brian Forte]

Gentlefolk,

Regarding the $subject above, I’ve installed fblome’s Codeless
Language Module (CLM), <https://github.com/fblome/bbedit-asciidoc>.
And, while absolutely acknowledging I’m looking a gift horse in the
mouth, the syntax highlighting it provides is underwhelming.

Equivalent add-ons are available for other editors.

For *VSCodium* there’s
<https://open-vsx.org/extension/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-vscode>.

For *Atom* there’s
<https://github.com/asciidoctor/atom-language-asciidoc>
(most readily installed as part of
<https://github.com/asciidoctor/atom-asciidoc-assistant>).

And both these add-ons make their respective editors delineate
syntactic elements more completely than the CLM available for BBEdit.
But I absolutely prefer BBEdit as a working environment. The
combination of BBEdit’s many specific niftinesses, and proper macOS
nativeness, is still a serious win.

Also, while the VSCodium extension and the Atom package highlight more
syntatic elements than fblome’s CLM, neither is complete. The most
complete, so far as I can gather, is MacVim’s built-in AsciiDoc syntax
highlighting. And I *really* don’t want to use any flavour of `vim`.

I’ve exhausted my own Google-fu and thought asking real people might
turn up something I’ve missed. Either a better AsciiDoc CLM, or,
perhaps, an AsciiDoc Language Server Protocol (LSP) that I’ve not
managed to turn up.

Many thanks, in advance.

Regards,

Brian Forte.
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Brian Forte
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[Sam Birch]

Unfortunately, CLMs are somewhat limited. The sufficiently motivated user might consider implementing a code-based language module instead. Documentation here:

http://www.barebones.com/support/develop/index.html

And unless I’m mistaken, currently BBEdit does not use LSP information for syntax highlighting.

Cheers,
-sam

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[Eric A. Meyer]

On 23 Feb 2022, at 17:43, Sam Birch wrote:

> Unfortunately, CLMs are somewhat limited. The sufficiently motivated user might consider implementing a code-based language module instead. Documentation here:
>
> http://www.barebones.com/support/develop/index.html
>
> And unless I’m mistaken, currently BBEdit does not use LSP information for syntax highlighting.

It looks to me like BBEdits does support LSPs, if my digging around "Preferences > Languages > Language-specific settings:" is any indication. Do you mean it supports LSPs, but just doesn't use them for highlighting?

(Asking because I also could REALLY use good AsciiDoc syntax highlighting and even previewing: it's the only reason I ever fire up Atom, and doing that is never not annoying in some way or other.)

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[Rich Siegel]

On 26 Mar 2022, at 11:21, Eric A. Meyer wrote:

> It looks to me like BBEdits does support LSPs, if my digging around "Preferences > Languages > Language-specific settings:" is any indication. Do you mean it supports LSPs, but just doesn't use them for highlighting?

Correct.

> (Asking because I also could REALLY use good AsciiDoc syntax highlighting and even previewing

Some day, perhaps. :-)

R.


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Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me.

[Patrick Woolsey]

On Mar 26, 2022, at 11:21, Eric A. Meyer <er...@meyerweb.com> wrote:
>
> It looks to me like BBEdits does support LSPs, if my digging around "Preferences > Languages > Language-specific settings:" is any indication.

That is correct, e.g.

https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/lsp-notes.html

> On 23 Feb 2022, at 17:43, Sam Birch wrote:

>> And unless I’m mistaken, currently BBEdit does not use LSP information for syntax highlighting.
>

> [...] Do you mean it supports LSPs, but just doesn't use them for highlighting?

and this is also correct. :-)


Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
==
Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/>

[Eric A. Meyer]

On 26 Mar 2022, at 11:32, Rich Siegel wrote:

> On 26 Mar 2022, at 11:21, Eric A. Meyer wrote:
>
>> (Asking because I also could REALLY use good AsciiDoc syntax highlighting and even previewing
>
> Some day, perhaps. :-)

I don't suppose there's a really good CLM for Markdown? I feel like someone could make halfway decent progress on AsciiDoc syntax highlighting if they had a Markdown CLM to start from, given the similarities between the two.