YAML parsing and highlighting is lacking compared to other editors. When paired with Geany I get a very basic view of YAML code. My primary usage of YAML is with Ansible.
- No syntax checking.
- Wrong amount of indentation? No idea until you run it and it fails.
- Wrong number of curly brackets?
- Missing quote?
- Little to know highlighting contrast. Booleans and some integers get highlighted differently but no coloring is done in variable files. Can we get coloring for variables or jinja arguments, etc. so things are easier to see?
These seem reasonable. It'd help to include examples or links to show just what is meant by each case.
Improving lexers is normally done by people interested in that language. I don't currently use YAML so will not be working on this myself.
I have a improved YAML lexer for YAML 1.2 at https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2/blob/master/scintilla/lexers/LexYAML.cxx
you can test Notepad2 v4.19.12.r2604 or later. If you are interesting, I can port the lexer to official Scintilla's lexlib after the Spring Festival.
new styles in the lexer: directive, tag, verbatim tag, single quoted string, double quoted string, escape sequence, block scalar, indented text, datetime;
explicit flow styles (i.e. JSON like '{}[]') is limited to 127 levels.
the SCE_YAML_ERROR is not implemented: Tab in indentation is non-content whitespace.
other bugs for YAML is also fixed [bugs:#1847], [bugs:#2081], [bugs:#2134].
Related
Bugs: #1847
Bugs: #2081
Bugs:
#2134That adds many new states so is significantly different from the current YAML lexer. To avoid problems in downstream projects, it might be a choice rather than a replacement.
It would be worthwhile producing test examples: one that lexes identically in both YAML lexers, and another example to show the new features.