Codeless Language Module for LiveCode (nee RunRev)

[Stam Kapetanakis]

Hi all,

I've found an old pList used for LiveCode within BBEdit.

Just have an issue with line commenting. The old file only had 1 commenting style:

<key>BBLMCommentLineDefault</key>
<string>#</string>

followed by the multiline commenting:
<key>BBLMCommentPrefixDefault</key>
<string>/*</string>
<key>BBLMCommentSuffixDefault</key>
<string>*/</string>

but in this language there are 3 styles for single line comments: "//", "#" and "--"

I thought I'd be clever and change the single line comment key to:

<key>BBLMCommentLineDefault</key>
<array>
<string>#</string>
<string>--</string>
<string>//</string>
</array>

everything works except "--" 

I suspect none of this made any difference BBEdit was processing "//" and "#" as default 

markers for a comment line.

Question: How can I make BBEdit treat "--" as start of. comment line?

Many thanks

Stam

[jj]

Hi Stam,

Take a look at https://www.barebones.com/support/develop/clm.html#ExREComments.

You could leave empty all the BBLMComment* keys and add this to your plist:

<key>Comment Pattern</key>

<string><![CDATA[

(?x)                (?# Allow comments and ignore whitespace even in classes.)

(?-s)               (?# Dot doesn't match newlines.)

(\#|--|\/\/)        (?# Single line comment prefixes.)

.*                  (?# Rest of the line)

$                   (?# End of line.)

]]></string>

Here is an imaginary Stam Codeless Language Module that would be applied to files with .stam extension.

Name it ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Language Modules_out/Stam.plist and restart BBEdit.

<?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>Stam</string>

    <key>BBLMLanguageDisplayName</key>

    <string>Stam</string>

    <key>BBLMSuffixMap</key>

    <array>

        <dict>

        <key>BBLMLanguageSuffix</key>

        <string>.stam</string>

        </dict>

    </array>

    <key>Language Features</key>

    <dict>

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

        <string>\p{L}\p{N}\-</string>

        <key>Comment Pattern</key>

        <string><![CDATA[

        (?x)                (?# Allow comments and ignore whitespace even in classes.)

        (?-s)               (?# Dot doesn't match newlines.)

        (\#|--|\/\/)        (?# Single line comment prefixes.)

        .*                  (?# Rest of the line)

        $                   (?# End of line.)

        ]]></string>

    </dict>

</dict>

</plist>

For help on regular expressions, see BBEdit > Help > BBEdit Help > Grep Reference.

HTH

Jean Jourdain

[Gil Dawson]

Markup -> Check -> Document Syntax ^⌘Y 

...on my XML document gets a few ignorable errors:

Is there a way to avoid those errors?

My document starts with "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>"

I tried adding "<!DOCTYPE XML>"; didn't help.

The bottom of the BBEdit window says XML:

--Gil