[gentoo-dev] Ebuild syntax highlighting

[Steve Long]

Hi all,

  There was a brief discussion a coupla weeks about getting better syntax
highlighting and context help for ebuilds. Well, sorry can't help with the
second yet, but I hacked together a syntax highlighting file for katepart
(as used in kwrite and kate of course ;) based on the BASH one. You can d/l
the first version from: http://phpfi.com/214109

  All it does is add the functions from the reference in the devmanual (nice
one ciaran- btw I do agree with only releasing when it's ready ;) as a new
word list (<list name="ebuild_cmds"> on line 91.) I also put in the inherit
keyword.

  The only other change is the addition of line 644:
        <keyword attribute="Command" context="#stay" String="ebuild_cmds" />

  and I added a priority attribute to the language so it will take
precedence over BASH highlighting for ebuilds and eclasses.

  It'd be good to add functions from other eclasses, maybe in a separate
list. ATM the file has bash_completion, eutils, fdo_mime. flag-o-matic,
gnome2, rpm, subversion functions as per the devmanual.

HTH,
SteveL.


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