Sublime to change Tcl syntax highlighting - sublimetext2

In notepad++, the tcl command arguments get highlighted. Like this:
puts [my_tcl_command -arg1 foo -arg2 bar]
How can I change the syntax highlighting definition in Sublime Text 2. I guess it's somewhere in this file "Sublime Text 2\Packages\TCL\Tcl.tmLanguage".

Syntax highlighting in Sublime Text is controlled by two files - the .tmLanguage file, which you mentioned, and your theme's .tmTheme file. Scopes are assigned to your code by interpreting regular expressions contained in the .tmLanguage file. For example, puts is assigned the scopes source.tcl keyword.other.tcl You can determine this by putting your cursor in a certain spot, then hitting CtrlAltShift-P - the scope(s) will appear in the bottom bar. Alternatively, I highly recommend using the ScopeHunter plugin.
So, now that we have the scope, it's up to the tmTheme file to assign the syntax highlighting. Unless you've installed a plugin theme, these files live in the Packages/Color Schemes - Default directory. It's in XML format, and you can search for the scope that's assigned to your -arg1 and -arg2 arguments and change the colors - they're in hex RGB web format.
EDIT
I just re-read your question, and realized that you want to assign a new scope to highlight the arguments. For that, you'll need to edit the .tmLanguage file and add a new regex to highlight them, assign a scope, then either alter your .tmTheme to add the new scope, or just assign one that's already highlighted. I don't know that much about how Notepad++ assigns its syntax highlighting rules, so you may be able to find one already written. Taking a look at other .tmLanguage files can be very instructive, as well. I recommend the Python one, even though it's not terribly well organized, because there are a large number of scopes, and it's fairly easy to see what's being done.

Related

How to adjust page size while publishing?

Software: Octave v7.1.0
There seems to be no option of defining the page size while doing publish ("FILE", "pdf") . The manual for pdf is: 11.11.1 docs.octave/.../Publish.
It's kinda surprising as it's a one word addition to the output TeX file : a4paper. I can do this manually each time I publish but being able to specify it somehow within the publish function would be awesome.
Surprisingly, there are plenty options for specifying page size in figures and images. Search for papertype at: 15.3.3.2 docs.octave/.../Figure-Properties
I searched with "Matlab" and found this page, and it fetched the results for "Matlab Report Generator" mlreportgen which seems a different thing.
I'd be interested to listen about other ways of doing it automatically too (like adding that word in TeX file via shell scripting and text string manipulation maybe).
As directed by #cris-luengo in the pointer comment to the linked manual, one solution can be to edit (or create) the function files (to used by the publish function) with the desired changes to specify the paper size.
The function files location can be found by:
opening the function file in octave gui and then proceeding from there:
edit (fullfile (fileparts (which ("publish")), "private", "__publish_html_output__.m"))
or, executing the following in octave REPL/command line:
fullfile (fileparts (which ("publish")), "private")
There, among other files, 2 files will be:
__publish_html_output__.m
__publish_latex_output__.m
Edit the _latex_ containing file to add ,a4paper (or other predefined size in latex) alongwith 10pt in the line '\documentclass[10pt]{article}',, optionally with a comment in a proceeding newline as a reminder that you added it, something like: '% Modification: specify a4paper',
If pdf format were directly specified as a new function file, then I'd have preferred to modify its copy and calling that directly in publish(), but since the publish pdf eventually calls publish latex, so, the only option at hand in this method seems to edit the original publish latex function file itself.

Can we make use of syntax highlighting feature to remove all comments from a source file in SublimeText?

I have a bunch of source files written in different languages, and I would like to strip all comments from the source files.
While writing regex is certainly an option, depending on the input files, I may have to handle cases where the character to denote comment appears inside string literals. There is also the need to maintain a list of regex for different languages.
The syntax highlighting seems to do quite a good job at highlighting the comments, but there doesn't seem to be any command to remove all comments in the Command Palette.
Is there any way to leverage the syntax highlighting feature in SublimeText to remove all comments from source files in different languages?
Based on nhahtdh's answer, the following plugin should work for both Sublime Text 2 and 3
import sublime_plugin
class RemoveCommentsCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit):
comments = self.view.find_by_selector('comment')
for region in reversed(comments):
self.view.erase(edit, region)
Create a new file with Python syntax, and paste the code above into it. Save the file in your Packages/User directory (accessible via Preferences -> Browse Packages...) as remove_comments.py. You can now either run the plugin via the console, or bind a key combination to it. To run via the console, just type
view.run_command('remove_comments')
in the console, and all the comments in the current view will be deleted.
To bind a key combination, open Preferences -> Key Bindings-User and add the following (surround it with square brackets [] if the file is empty):
{ "keys": ["ctrl+alt+shift+r"], "command": "remove_comments" }
Save the file, and you can now hit CtrlAltShiftR (or whatever key combination you choose) and all comments in the current file will be deleted.
Assumption
We will make use of the syntax highlighting rules in Sublime Text to remove all comments, so the method below works only if the syntax highlighting works correctly for the language of your source file.
For most languages, the syntax highlighting rules do quite a good job at recognizing the comments. However, it would be best if you take another look at your files to see if there is any anomaly in syntax highlighting.
The current method only works for Sublime Text 2.
Solution
Open the Console via View > Show Console or the key combination Ctrl+`
Copy and paste the following commands line by line:
e = view.begin_edit()
len([view.erase(e, r) for r in reversed(view.find_by_selector('comment'))])
view.end_edit(e)
After the last command, the edit will be applied and all comments will be removed.

Set syntax for a specific file name in Sublime Text 2/3

I have a program that uses a file called user.cfg to get its user defined configuration settings. The odd thing is that they chose the syntax for this file to be Tcl (it's not odd that it is Tcl, it's odd they chose the .cfg extension instead of .tcl). So, when I open this file in Sublime Text, it doesn't know what syntax highlighting scheme to choose.
What I would like to do is set the syntax highlighting for user.cfg to Tcl, but not all .cfg files to Tcl.
I have seen this question which is very similar to mine, except in that case the special file name had no extension so Sublime Text knew to assign Ruby highlighting to only that one file. Unfortunately, I have an extension so the solution given there will not work for me.
Is there any known way to get Sublime Text base a highlighting scheme on the full filename?
Take a look at the ApplySyntax plugin.
The previous answer is completely true; however, I thought it would be better to have it here all in one place rather than going on another webpage to find the list of procedure to apply it
Sublime text 3
This is found here
Ensure Package Control is installed. Instructions are found here.
In Sublime Text, press Ctrl+Shift+P (Win, Linux) or Cmd+Shift+P (macOS) to bring up the quick panel and start typing Package Control: Install Package.
Select the command and it will show a list of installable plugins.
Start typing ApplySyntax; when you see it, select it.
Restart to be sure everything is loaded proper.
Enjoy!

Doxygen FULL_PATH_NAMES does not generate full paths in file names

I have two libraries libA and libB.
libA contains a file Action.h
libB contains a file action.h
I want to generate doxygen documentation in the same output directory for both libraries. This directory is to be used in Windows, for which action.html and Action.html is unfortunately considered to be the same file. To prevent this clash, I wish to render the generated files unique by prepending their path names to them.
Therefore, I set FULL_PATH_NAMES to YES.
I expect to see something like libA_Action.html and libB_action.html when I generate the documentation, but I don't! I still see Action.html and action.html. Its as if the FULL_PATH_NAMES parameter does nothing at all. Do I also need to set some other parameter in the Doxyfile to make the FULL_PATH_NAMES parameter work correctly?
You're probably running doxygen twice - one time for each library. If that is the case, doxygen isn't aware of the fact that it might clash with an output from another run, so when it find an existing file, it assumes that it is leftover from a previous run, and overrides it.
Setting FULL_PATH_NAMES doesn't help, as doxygen has no idea that multiple libraries exist, so, as far as doxygen is concerned, the prefix is identical to all files, so even when you adding a force it, it adds nothing (That's probably a bug).
The solution to your problem is setting both libraries as inputs to the same doxygen project.
You can do it by setting INPUT to multiple folders in the configuration file:
INPUT = ...bla\Lib1 \
...bla\Lib2

Snippet with Custom Variables

I'd like to create a package containing a series of snippets that incorporate user-definable variables. For example, I'd like the user to be able to provide a value for a variable called HOSTNAME and have the snippets include that user's value.
The Sublime Text Unofficial Documentation explains:
Snippets have access to contextual information in the form of environment variables. Sublime Text automatically sets the values of the variables listed below.
You can also add your own variables to provide extra information. These custom variables are defined in .sublime-options files.
I've had no luck finding any information on the syntax for a .sublime-options file, however, and Sublime does not seem to try to read a file with that extension when I save it anywhere under the Packages directory. Is this a typo?
Using a .tmPreferences file seems to do what I'm looking for. Is this the only method of getting user-defined values into a snippet? Is it possible to use a .sublime-settings file?
The .sublime-options, actually, is the .sublime-settings. .sublime-options were the ST1 files and the docs got outdated, BUT you use the wrong link, you should always check and switch in the sidebar on the left to your version - ST2, ST3.
And to answer your question, you need to put the variables in .tmPreferences as may be seen here