[ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Patches-2787012 ] plain TeX edit mode

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Patches item #2787012, was opened at 2009-05-04 20:47
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: James Nicholl (jnicholl17)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: plain TeX edit mode

Initial Comment:
Syntax highlighting for plain TeX as described in the TeXbook by Knuth.

I work with this file open, so it may never be totally complete, but I've got it to the point that it is useful. The vocabulary is very large and categorized very well. There are some things I would like to do still, including further refining the categorization, and implementing the detection of macros that are invalid in math mode. A modified version for pdfTeX will probably arise naturally over the course of my work.

It needs further refinement, but what is there is very well done. I would like some feedback from the community if this is a worthwhile side project for me to pursue.

I included the catalog entry, but I'm not sure if it works. In fact, I'm pretty sure it doesn't., at least not from within jEdit 4.3 pre16. I just cut and paste the catalog entry from another mode submission. I don't understand why it doesn't work, or how it's supposed to work... It works well if you rename it latex.xml then overwrite the existing edit mode.

Advice on fixing this situation would be appreciated.

James Nicholl

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>Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust)
Date: 2009-06-29 16:10

Message:
what do you suggest the file name glob/first name glob should be? If we
currently have a mode for latex which uses the .tex extension, will we want
to associate this mode with any filename extension?


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Comment By: James Nicholl (jnicholl17)
Date: 2009-05-04 20:50

Message:
There is lengthy documentation for this highlighting package in the header
of the xml file.

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