uniBASIC syntax for Atom text editor

[frosty]

Before I dive into this, has any user of uniBASIC (or similar BASIC) built a syntax highlighter for the Atom text editor?

[Rick Weiser]

I did for Crimson.

[frosty]

I've got one for TextMate. Thought I could import it into Atom, but that doesn't look easy.

Also it has shortcomings which I'm hoping to fix in my Atom version. Some day. 

[MAV]

Hi,

VSCODE (Visual Studio Code  https://code.visualstudio.com/) is similar to Atom. There is a extension with PICK BASIC syntax highlighter:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TravisHaley.pick

For Sublime Text there are some alternatives:

https://github.com/jordonbrill/sublime-pickbasic

Marcos Alonso Vega

[Gysie de Bruyn]

I use Sublime Text 3 took the best of these to build syntax highlighting for us:

https://github.com/jordonbrill/sublime-pickbasic

https://github.com/mrdevon/RocketUnidata

This could help with the conversion from Sublime to Atom:

https://discuss.atom.io/t/convert-sublime-grammar-to-atom-grammar/14843

[frosty]

Thanks for the two replies that point to the Jordan Brill syntax for Sublime.

Atom uses coffeescript notation, which looks like Python-flavored json and I found this:

"You should notice that the regex contains more backslashes than usual" on this page.

So all my regex needed more backslashes, and now I'm making progress again. =`:^>

I'm gonna hack at this a bit more and put it up into gitHub at some point.

[frosty]

On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 2:46:25 PM UTC-7, frosty wrote:

Before I dive into this, has any user of uniBASIC (or similar BASIC) built a syntax highlighter for the Atom text editor?

Found some recent development here! 

[Burney Hoel]

I published that package. I would be happy to work together if your interested.

Burney

[frosty]

On Monday, February 27, 2017 at 8:15:37 AM UTC-7, Burney Hoel wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 2:46:25 PM UTC-7, frosty wrote:
>
> Before I dive into this, has any user of uniBASIC (or similar BASIC) built a syntax highlighter for the Atom text editor?

On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 12:46:23 AM UTC-5, frosty wrote: 

>
> Found some recent development here! 

 

On Monday, February 27, 2017 at 8:15:37 AM UTC-7, Burney Hoel wrote:

I published that package. I would be happy to work together if your interested.

Here's my gitHub repo: https://github.com/frostyjhammer/unibasic-syntax

What I've got there is very basic, and somewhat flawed. In particular, that

syntax doesn't handle a comment appended to the end of a line of code 

with a semicolon + an asterisk/bangsign, which I'd love to see fixed. 

I'm not very handy with these syntax definitions. =':^/

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frosty

[Burney Hoel]

Below are the regex patterns I used for comments, the last pattern in each looks for a preceding ";"

(^\\s*\\*.*|^(\\*).*|(?<=;)\\s*\\*.*)

(^\\s*\\!.*|^(\\!).*|(?<=;)\\s\\*!.*)

My grammar package "language pick basic" is actually a Unibasic grammar. I called it pick basic as that's what we call it at work but our environment is Unidata 7.3

The only issue i am having with my package is the auto indentation, I have worked out everything except for CASE statements. I am working on adding a custom function for it now.

Feel free to contact me at burne...@gmail.com, we should chat on discord or skype to see if there may be a more efficient way to work on our projects together.

Thanks,

Burney

[Burney Hoel]

Sorry there was an extra asterisk in the bang example.

(^\\s*\\!.*|^(\\!).*|(?<=;)\\s\\!.*)

[Bill Crowell]

I did a lot of work with Atom before changing direction. The issue with any of these editors is the ability to save to a remote and be MV aware- the ability to compile and do other things that I can do with WED.

This is why I created the Redaktor tool. I can edit within the browser and compile on the remote.

[frosty]

On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 9:01:31 AM UTC-7, Burney Hoel wrote:

Sorry there was an extra asterisk in the bang example.

(^\\s*\\!.*|^(\\!).*|(?<=;)\\s\\!.*)

Asterisk version worked perfectly. I cloned it and tweaked it for bang-sign

and would up with this, which works perfectly, too:

'match': '^\\s*\\!.*|^(\\!).*|(?<=;)\\s*\\!.*'

Burney you've been very helpful, thanks!

I think mvTalk for Slack would be a good place to continue this conversation.

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frosty

[frosty]

On Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 1:22:36 PM UTC-7, frosty wrote:

I think mvTalk for Slack would be a good place to continue this conversation.

I should add: this link should take to you a page with a link to get signed up to mvTalk in Slack.

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frosty 

[Burney Hoel]

I have the same issues with atom, I have created some tools in our unidata system to help bridge the gap. I am also looking at the linter package by steel brain to accomplish real time compilation error alerts. I would love to work with anyone interested in building out these capabilities. I will heading over to mvTalk for Slack if anyone is interested in collaborating.

Thanks,

Burney