From: Sergius Nyah <sergiusnyah@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:42:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSOC][RFC] Add more builtin patterns for userdiff, as Mircroproject.
Message-ID: <CANAnif-OganZLi0Cu_uq=nveC+u5n14c=o_DQHT-wFOqQ9Vs0Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD0YicYXrYgHdvcrWps+cMa=Dp9Ob7SfYLMXQKLp7-B+7w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 4:11 PM Christian Couder
<christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 3:23 PM Sergius Nyah <sergiusnyah@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 11:51 AM
> > Subject: Re: [GSOC][RFC] Add more builtin patterns for userdiff, as
> > Mircroproject.
> > To: Sergius Nyah <sergiusnyah@gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 11:48 AM Christian Couder
> > <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 9:10 PM Sergius Nyah <sergiusnyah@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > > Okay then. I will add support for shell, as it was primarily suggested
> > > > > in the idea itself.
> > >
> > > As Bash is a shell and is already supported, I am not sure which kind
> > > of shell you want to support. There are other shells or kinds of shell
> > > with different syntax that might be worth supporting, but then you
> > > might want to tell us which shell or which new kind of shell.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > I've definitely learned one more thing. Thank you!
> > Also, after taking another keen look at the Patterns defined in userdiff.c,
> > In accordance with what you've said, I realized that Kotlin isn't
> > supported yet.
>
> It is actually already supported too:
>
> $ grep -i -n kotlin userdiff.c
> 186:PATTERNS("kotlin",
>
> To help you a bit, you can get the list of already supported languages using:
>
> $ perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if m/PATTERNS\(\"(\w+)\"/ or
> m/IPATTERN\(\"(\w+)\"/' <userdiff.c

Thank you for these. $ perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if
m/IPATTERN\(\"(\w+)\"/' userdiff.c works too.

> ada
> bash
> bibtex
> cpp
> csharp
> css
> dts
> elixir
> fortran
> fountain
> golang
> html
> java
> kotlin
> markdown
> matlab
> objc
> pascal
> perl
> php
> python
> ruby
> rust
> scheme
> tex

Great! JavaScript, despite its widespread use, isn't implemented, so I
will take it.
Thank you!