create-textmate.md

Creating a Textmate

I highly recommend using Iro when creating a new language syntax highlight. It allows a simple interface for defining rules and generates files for Textmate (plist), Atom, Ace, Sublime3.

References for Textmate:

• Debuggex
• SublimeText - Scope naming reference

Regex and scope naming

Obs: some of them doesn't work directly on Debuggex, but works in the IDE (e.g: VSCode)

Scope naming	Regex	Example
keyword.operator.logical	`(<=	>=
keyword.operator.arithmetic	`(-	+
keyword.conditional	`\bif\s	\bthen[\s
constant.numeric.integer.binary	(\b[01]+\b)	10010
constant.numeric.integer.octal	(^0[0-7]+$)	07
constant.numeric.integer.decimal	(^[\d.]+$)	70
constant.numeric.integer.hexadecimal	`(0[a-z	A-Z][0-9a-fA-F]+)`
constant.numeric.float	`[+-]?((\d+.?\d*)	(.\d+))`

Examples of textmate:

• JSON: vs-code-textmate python
• plist: vs-code-textmate ruby

Example of Iro:

• Iro code
• Debug (Formality-Core)