[GitHub] jlahoda commented on issue #1045: Support for TextMate grammars (from VS Code)

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jlahoda commented on issue #1045: Support for TextMate grammars (from VS Code)
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/1045#issuecomment-444667275
 
 
   The current steps are roughly:
   -(in a NetBeans module), create a new file type:
   New/Other/Module Development/File Type
   pick a mime type, presumably "text/<second-part>".
   -then add an XML Layer:
   New/Other/Module Development/XML Layer
   next to the XML layer, copy the TextMate grammar and edit the layer like this:
   ```
   <filesystem>
       <folder name="Editors">
           <folder name="text">
               <folder name="<second-part>">
                   <file name="<grammar-name>" url="<grammar-name>">
                       <attr name="textmate-grammar" stringvalue="<scopeName-from-the-grammar>" />
                   </file>
               </folder>
           </folder>
       </folder>
   </filesystem>
   ```
   Filling: <second-part> from text/<second-part>, <grammar-name> with the filename of the grammar and <scopeName-from-the-grammar> with the value of the "scopeName" from the top-level of the grammar.
   -run the module (F6) - with a little luck, the IDE could syntax-highlight files with the given extensions using the grammar.
   
   I'd be intrigued to hear any experiences with this. There are some opportunities for simplification (instead of manually creating a layer, there could be an annotation on the DataObject which would generate the layer automatically, and then this could be (an optional) part of the wizard).

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