Syntax Highlighting for .sfs and .cfg Files

[NathanJang]

Hello. This is my first post on this forum.

I have recently made a .tmLanguage specification for the .sfs and .cfg files in KSP. This allows syntax highlighting in Sublime Text. (IIRC some other text editors use it too, but it's mainly for Sublime.) I was surprised that I couldn't find one, given the large modding community, or perhaps there is already syntax highlighting somewhere, and I just haven't found it.

Any comments or suggestions?

[NathanKell]

Welcome to the forum! Though I don't use Sublime, that looks super helpful!

Moving to Tools and Apps, where this would fit in better.

[medsouz]

Thanks! I was looking for this earlier today.

[fizzboy]

One suggestion would be to make it available through Package Control.

https://sublime.wbond.net/docs/submitting_a_package

[NathanJang]

Thanks! I'll do it when I'm not busy playing KSP

Edit: It's now on Package Control.

Edited November 30, 2014 by NathanJang

[fizzboy]

Installing through Package Control works perfectly. Thanks!

I found a few small problems with the syntax highlighting. It identifies numbers even when they're part of a string and certain lines that are commented aren't identified correctly. I took a screenshot to illustrate.

Edited November 30, 2014 by fizzboy
MediaCrush isn't working today... changed to imgur link

[NathanJang]

I worked on it a bit. Here's the update, and here's how it looks.

[fizzboy]

Boom! That's looking much better.

[Gfurst]

Hey, while this seems pretty cool, there are some concerns on usage, while its a free application, I never heard of Sublime before, and it isn't open-source.

A quick test run to try this out, and I couldn't get package manager no work properly. On top of that its a big step to learn the Sublime workflow alone.

Has anybody seem something like this, but for a more open/commonly used engine? Like this one for example, this mention only for KDE but I'm guessing open-source apps follow some kind of standard.

Besides that, if there isn't an alternative, what would be the commonly used language syntax that comes the closest to KSP?

[NathanJang]

There are open-source alternatives to Sublime, such as http://limetext.org/ or https://atom.io/

If you look into the source code of my syntax definition, it's simply regular expressions of components of the syntax. I encourage you to fork my project and port it to other text editors

[Gfurst]

There are open-source alternatives to Sublime, such as http://limetext.org/ or https://atom.io/

If you look into the source code of my syntax definition, it's simply regular expressions of components of the syntax. I encourage you to fork my project and port it to other text editors

Really cool, awesome, so these same open-source will work the the existing syntax

I tried to look a bit into the syntax of katepart in comparison with yours, seems doable but I'm afraid I'm way over my head.

Cheers!

[beabop]

I for one would love an emacs lisp and notepad++ version.

[NathanKell]

For the latter: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/102065-Notepad-configs-for-Module-Manager-files