Hashicorp Terraform Language Specification for GtkSourceView 4 (gedit and xed) . Generated by https://github.com/guitarmanvt/cson2lang

hcl.lang

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Syntax highlighting for the HashiCorp Configuration Language language
-->
<language id="hcl" name="HashiCorp Configuration Language" section="Sources" version="2.0">
  <metadata>
    <property name="globs">*.hcl;*.nomad;*.tf</property>
    <property name="line-comment-start">//</property>
    <property name="block-comment-start">/*</property>
    <property name="block-comment-end">*/</property>
  </metadata>
  <styles>
    <style id="comment" name="Comment" map-to="def:comment"/>
    <style id="number" name="Number" map-to="def:number"/>
    <style id="constant" name="Constant" map-to="def:constant"/>
    <style id="keyword" name="Keyword" map-to="def:keyword"/>
    <style id="string" name="String" map-to="def:string"/>
    <style id="comment" name="Comment" map-to="def:comment"/>
  </styles>
  <definitions>
    <context id="hcl">
      <include>
        <context id="comment_type_0" style-ref="comment">
          <start>//</start>
          <end>$</end>
        </context>
        <context id="comment_type_1" style-ref="comment">
          <start>#</start>
          <end>$</end>
        </context>
        <context id="comment_type_2" style-ref="comment">
          <start>/\*</start>
          <end>\*/</end>
        </context>
        <context id="number" style-ref="number">
          <match extended="true">-?(?=[1-9]|0(?!\d))\d+(\.\d+)?([eE][+-]?\d+)?</match>
        </context>
        <context id="constant" style-ref="constant">
          <match extended="true">\b(?:true|false|null)\b</match>
        </context>
        <context id="keyword" style-ref="keyword">
          <match extended="true">\b(?:[\w\d_-]+)\b</match>
        </context>
        <context id="string" style-ref="string">
          <start>"</start>
          <end>"</end>
        </context>
        <context id="comment" style-ref="comment">
          <start>(^[ \t]+)?(?=(#|//))</start>
          <end>(?!\G)</end>
        </context>
      </include>
    </context>
  </definitions>
</language>

This has one annoying bug: # and // single-line comments only really work right at the start of the line. I've tried to figure out the right syntax to make it work, but I'm beginning to wonder if language-spec can handle two different types of line comments.

Any objections if I submit this to gtksourceview?

@jebw Feel free. (Sorry for the tardy response.)

@guitarmanvt thanks for your work I have included it in my app cherrytree I hope you don't mind!
I should have fixed the issue of the single line comment in giuspen/cherrytree@fdc0457

@giuspen Thanks! I just saw this. Made my day. 😎