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<chapter id="writing-modes">
<title>Mode Definition Syntax</title>
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<para>Edit modes are defined using XML, the <firstterm>eXtensible Markup
Language</firstterm>; mode files have the extension
<filename>.xml</filename>. XML is a very simple language, and as a result
edit modes are easy to create and modify. This section will start with a
short XML primer, followed by detailed information about each supported tag
and highlighting rule.</para>
<para>Editing a mode or a mode catalog file within jEdit will cause the
changes to take effect immediately. If you edit modes using another
application, the changes will take effect after the
<guimenu>Utilities</guimenu> > <guisubmenu>Troubleshooting</guisubmenu>
> <guimenuitem>Reload Edit Modes</guimenuitem> command is invoked.</para>
<section id="xml-primer">
<title>An XML Primer</title>
<para>A very simple XML file (which also happens to be an edit mode)
looks like so:</para>
<programlisting><?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE MODE SYSTEM "xmode.dtd">
<MODE>
<PROPS>
<PROPERTY NAME="commentStart" VALUE="/*" />
<PROPERTY NAME="commentEnd" VALUE="*/" />
</PROPS>
<RULES>
<SPAN TYPE="COMMENT1">
<BEGIN>/*</BEGIN>
<END>*/</END>
</SPAN>
</RULES>
</MODE></programlisting>
<para>Note that each opening tag must have a corresponding closing tag.
If there is nothing between the opening and closing tags, for example
<literal><TAG></TAG></literal>, the shorthand notation
<literal><TAG /></literal> may be used. An example of this
shorthand can be seen in the <literal><PROPERTY></literal> tags
above.</para>
<tip><title> Validation and Errors </title>
<para> Most XML file formats have a formal grammar specified in either DTD, XSD or RNG.
In the example above, we can see that the <literal>DOCTYPE</literal>,
or formal grammar for jEdit mode files is described in <literal>xmode.dtd</literal>,
which happens to come from jEdit's source code.
If you install the XML plugin, and while editing a mode file in jEdit, go to
<guimenuitem>Plugins - XML - Parse as XML</guimenuitem>,
you should see a structure tree in Sidekick,
and you will also see errors (if there are any) in ErrorList, if the document does not
conform to the proper XML syntax or the document's formal grammar.
In addition, the XML plugin provides completion tips for elements and attributes.
All of these things can help immensely especially when learning XML.
</para>
<para> It is highly recommended that you check your XML files for validation errors
before submitting them to the community. </para></tip>
<para>XML is case sensitive. <literal>Span</literal> or
<literal>span</literal> is not the same as
<literal>SPAN</literal>.</para>
<para>To insert a special character such as < or > literally in
XML (for example, inside an attribute value), you must write it as an
<firstterm>entity</firstterm>. An entity consists of the character's
symbolic name enclosed within <quote>&</quote> and <quote>;</quote>.
The most frequently used entities are:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal><</literal> - The less-than (<)
character</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>></literal> - The greater-than (>)
character</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>&</literal> - The ampersand (&)
character</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For example, the following will cause a syntax error:</para>
<programlisting><SEQ TYPE="OPERATOR">&</SEQ></programlisting>
<para>Instead, you must write:</para>
<programlisting><SEQ TYPE="OPERATOR">&</SEQ></programlisting>
<para>Now that the basics of XML have been covered, the rest of this
section will cover each construct in detail.</para>
</section>
<section id="mode-preamble">
<title>The Preamble and MODE tag</title>
<para>Each mode definition must begin with the following:</para>
<programlisting><?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE MODE SYSTEM "xmode.dtd"></programlisting>
<para>Each mode definition must also contain exactly one
<literal>MODE</literal> tag. All other tags (<literal>PROPS</literal>,
<literal>RULES</literal>) must be placed inside the
<literal>MODE</literal> tag. The <literal>MODE</literal> tag does not
have any defined attributes. Here is an example:</para>
<programlisting><MODE>
<replaceable>... mode definition goes here ...</replaceable>
</MODE></programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-tag-props">
<title>The PROPS Tag</title>
<para>The <literal>PROPS</literal> tag and the
<literal>PROPERTY</literal> tags inside it are used to define
mode-specific properties. Each <literal>PROPERTY</literal> tag must have
a <literal>NAME</literal> attribute set to the property's name, and a
<literal>VALUE</literal> attribute with the property's value.
<para>All buffer-local properties listed in <xref
linkend="buffer-local" /> may be given values in edit modes.</para>
<para><literal>contextInsensitive</literal> - If true, the property
indicates that a line can always be highlighted without taking care of
the previous line. If activated, the syntax parsing will be much faster.
</para>
<para>The following mode properties specify commenting strings:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>commentEnd</literal> - the comment end string,
used by the <guimenuitem>Range Comment</guimenuitem>
command.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>commentStart</literal> - the comment start
string, used by the <guimenuitem>Range Comment</guimenuitem>
command.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>lineComment</literal> - the line comment string,
used by the <guimenuitem>Line Comment</guimenuitem>
command.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>When performing auto indent, a number of mode properties determine
the resulting indent level:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The line and the one before it are scanned for brackets
listed in the <literal>indentCloseBrackets</literal> and
<literal>indentOpenBrackets</literal> properties. Opening
brackets in the previous line increase indent.</para>
<para>If <literal>lineUpClosingBracket</literal> is set to
<literal>true</literal>, then closing brackets on the current
line will line up with the line containing the matching opening
bracket. For example, in Java mode
<literal>lineUpClosingBracket</literal> is set to
<literal>true</literal>, resulting in brackets being indented
like so:</para>
<programlisting>{
// Code
{
// More code
}
}</programlisting>
<para>If <literal>lineUpClosingBracket</literal> is set to
<literal>false</literal>, the line <emphasis>after</emphasis> a
closing bracket will be lined up with the line containing the
matching opening bracket. For example, in Lisp mode
<literal>lineUpClosingBracket</literal> is set to
<literal>false</literal>, resulting in brackets being indented
like so:</para>
<programlisting>(foo 'a-parameter
(crazy-p)
(bar baz ()))
(print "hello world")</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If the previous line contains no opening brackets, or if
the <literal>doubleBracketIndent</literal> property is set to
<literal>true</literal>, the previous line is checked against
the regular expressions in the <literal>indentNextLine</literal>
and <literal>indentNextLines</literal> properties.
If the
previous line matches the former, the indent of the current line
is increased and the subsequent line is shifted back again. If
the previous line matches the latter, the indent of the current
and subsequent lines is increased.</para>
<para> There are corresponding <literal>unindentThisLine</literal> and <literal>unindentNextLines</literal> properties which are checked also, for doing the reverse-indent operation on lines that match certain regular expressions. </para>
<para>In Java mode, for example, the
<literal>indentNextLine</literal> property is set to match
control structures such as <quote>if</quote>,
<quote>else</quote>, <quote>while</quote>, and so on.</para>
<para>The <literal>doubleBracketIndent</literal> property, if
set to the default of <literal>false</literal>, results in code
indented like so:</para>
<programlisting>while(objects.hasNext())
{
Object next = objects.hasNext();
if(next instanceof Paintable)
next.paint(g);
}</programlisting>
<para>On the other hand, settings this property to
<quote>true</quote> will give the following result:</para>
<programlisting>while(objects.hasNext())
{
Object next = objects.hasNext();
if(next instanceof Paintable)
next.paint(g);
}</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>
<literal>electricKeys</literal>: characters listed here, when typed
on a line, cause the current line to be re-indented. Notice that by
default, pressing "Enter" does not re-indent the current line, only
the new line. To get this behavior, add the newline character to
<literal>electricKeys</literal> in the xml-escaped form 

</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>ignoreWhitespace</literal>:
Ignore whitespace lines.
This property is on (<literal>true</literal>) by default.
Python language sets this to
<literal>false</literal> because of the special treatment
of whitespaces. Note this example:
<programlisting>def fun1:
a = 1
b = 2
def fun2:
</programlisting>
Pressing <keycap>C+i</keycap>
(<guimenuitem>Indent Lines</guimenuitem> command) on
the <literal>fun2</literal> line would usually indent this
line and make it even with the <literal>b = 2</literal> line.
But with switched off <literal>ignoreWhitespace</literal> setting
the line will stay the way it was indented manually.
<literal>ignoreWhitespace=false</literal> setting prevents
any forward indentation after a whitespace line.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Here is the complete <literal><PROPS></literal> tag for Java
mode:</para>
<programlisting><PROPS>
<PROPERTY NAME="commentStart" VALUE="/*" />
<PROPERTY NAME="commentEnd" VALUE="*/" />
<PROPERTY NAME="lineComment" VALUE="//" />
<PROPERTY NAME="wordBreakChars" VALUE=",+-=<>/?^&*" />
<!-- Auto indent -->
<PROPERTY NAME="indentOpenBrackets" VALUE="{" />
<PROPERTY NAME="indentCloseBrackets" VALUE="}" />
<PROPERTY NAME="unalignedOpenBrackets" VALUE="(" />
<PROPERTY NAME="unalignedCloseBrackets" VALUE=")" />
<PROPERTY NAME="indentNextLine"
VALUE="\s*(((if|while)\s*\(|else\s*|else\s+if\s*\(|for\s*\(.*\))[^{;]*)" />
<PROPERTY NAME="unindentThisLine"
VALUE="^.*(default:\s*|case.*:.*)$" />
<PROPERTY NAME="electricKeys" VALUE=":" />
<!-- set this to 'true' if you want to use GNU coding style -->
<PROPERTY NAME="doubleBracketIndent" VALUE="false" />
<PROPERTY NAME="lineUpClosingBracket" VALUE="true" />
</PROPS></programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-tag-rules">
<title>The RULES Tag</title>
<para><literal>RULES</literal> tags must be placed inside the
<literal>MODE</literal> tag. Each <literal>RULES</literal> tag defines a
<firstterm>ruleset</firstterm>. A ruleset consists of a number of
<firstterm>parser rules</firstterm>, with each parser rule specifying
how to highlight a specific syntax token. There must be at least one
ruleset in each edit mode. There can also be more than one, with
different rulesets being used to highlight different parts of a buffer
(for example, in HTML mode, one rule set highlights HTML tags, and
another highlights inline JavaScript). For information about using more
than one ruleset, see <xref linkend="mode-rule-span" />.</para>
<para>The <literal>RULES</literal> tag supports the following
attributes, all of which are optional:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>SET</literal> - the name of this ruleset. All
rulesets other than the first must have a name.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>IGNORE_CASE</literal> - if set to
<literal>FALSE</literal>, matches will be case sensitive.
Otherwise, case will not matter. Default is
<literal>TRUE</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>ESCAPE</literal> - specifies a character sequence
for escaping literals. The first character following the escape
sequence is not considered as input for syntax highlighting,
thus being highlighted with default token for the rule set.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>NO_WORD_SEP</literal> - any non-alphanumeric
character <emphasis>not</emphasis> in this list is treated as a
word separator for the purposes of syntax highlighting.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>DEFAULT</literal> - the token type for text which
doesn't match any specific rule. Default is
<literal>NULL</literal>. See <xref
linkend="mode-syntax-tokens" /> for a list of token
types.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>HIGHLIGHT_DIGITS</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>DIGIT_RE</literal> - see below for information
about these two attributes.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Here is an example <literal>RULES</literal> tag:</para>
<programlisting><RULES IGNORE_CASE="FALSE" HIGHLIGHT_DIGITS="TRUE">
<replaceable>... parser rules go here ...</replaceable>
</RULES></programlisting>
<section>
<title>Highlighting Numbers</title>
<para>If the <literal>HIGHLIGHT_DIGITS</literal> attribute is set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, jEdit will attempt to highlight numbers in
this ruleset.</para>
<para>Any word consisting entirely of digits (0-9) will be
highlighted with the <literal>DIGIT</literal> token type. A word
that contains other letters in addition to digits will be
highlighted with the <literal>DIGIT</literal> token type only if it
matches the regular expression specified in the
<literal>DIGIT_RE</literal> attribute. If this attribute is not
specified, it will not be highlighted.</para>
<para>Here is an example <literal>DIGIT_RE</literal> regular
expression that highlights Java-style numeric literals (normal
numbers, hexadecimals prefixed with <literal>0x</literal>, numbers
suffixed with various type indicators, and floating point literals
containing an exponent). Note that newlines have been inserted here
for readability.</para>
<programlisting>DIGIT_RE="(0[lL]?|[1-9]\d{0,9}(\d{0,9}[lL])?
|0[xX]\p{XDigit}{1,8}(\p{XDigit}{0,8}[lL])?
|0[0-7]{1,11}([0-7]{0,11}[lL])?|([0-9]+\.[0-9]*
|\.[0-9]+)([eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?[fFdD]?|[0-9]+([eE][+-]?[0-9]+[fFdD]?
|([eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?[fFdD]))"
<para>Regular expression syntax is described in <xref
linkend="regexps" />.</para>
</section>
<section id="rule-ordering">
<title>Rule Ordering Requirements</title>
<para>You might encounter this very common pitfall when writing your
own modes.</para>
<para>Since jEdit checks buffer text against parser rules in the
order they appear in the ruleset, more specific rules must be placed
before generalized ones, otherwise the generalized rules will catch
everything.</para>
<para>This is best demonstrated with an example. The following is
incorrect rule ordering:</para>
<programlisting><SPAN TYPE="MARKUP">
<BEGIN>[</BEGIN>
<END>]</END>
</SPAN>
<SPAN TYPE="KEYWORD1">
<BEGIN>[!</BEGIN>
<END>]</END>
</SPAN></programlisting>
<para>If you write the above in a rule set, any occurrence of
<quote>[</quote> (even things like <quote>[!DEFINE</quote>, etc)
will be highlighted using the first rule, because it will be the
first to match. This is most likely not the intended
behavior.</para>
<para>The problem can be solved by placing the more specific rule
before the general one:</para>
<programlisting><SPAN TYPE="KEYWORD1">
<BEGIN>[!</BEGIN>
<END>]</END>
</SPAN>
<SPAN TYPE="MARKUP">
<BEGIN>[</BEGIN>
<END>]</END>
</SPAN></programlisting>
<para>Now, if the buffer contains the text
<quote>[!SPECIAL]</quote>, the rules will be checked in order, and
the first rule will be the first to match. However, if you write
<quote>[FOO]</quote>, it will be highlighted using the second rule,
which is exactly what you would expect.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Per-Ruleset Properties</title>
<para>The <literal>PROPS</literal> tag (described in <xref
linkend="mode-tag-props" />) can also be placed inside the
<literal>RULES</literal> tag to define ruleset-specific properties.
The following properties can be set on a per-ruleset basis:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>commentEnd</literal> - the comment end
string.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>commentStart</literal> - the comment start
string.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>lineComment</literal> - the line comment
string.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>This allows different parts of a file to have different
comment strings (in the case of HTML, for example, in HTML text and
inline JavaScript). For information about the commenting commands,
see <xref linkend="commenting" />.</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="mode-rule-terminate">
<title>The TERMINATE Tag</title>
<para>The <literal>TERMINATE</literal> rule, which must be placed inside
a <literal>RULES</literal> tag, specifies that parsing should stop after
the specified number of characters have been read from a line. The
number of characters to terminate after should be specified with the
<literal>AT_CHAR</literal> attribute. Here is an example:</para>
<programlisting><TERMINATE AT_CHAR="1" /></programlisting>
<para>This rule is used in Patch mode, for example, because only the
first character of each line affects highlighting.</para>
</section>
<section id="mode-rule-span">
<title>The SPAN Tag</title>
<para>The <literal>SPAN</literal> rule, which must be placed inside a
<literal>RULES</literal> tag, highlights text between a start and end
string. The start and end strings are specified inside child elements of
the <literal>SPAN</literal> tag. The following attributes are
supported:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>TYPE</literal> - The token type to highlight the
span with. See <xref linkend="mode-syntax-tokens" /> for a list
of token types.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_LINE_START</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the span will only be highlighted if
the start sequence occurs at the beginning of a line.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_WHITESPACE_END</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the span will only be highlighted if
the start sequence is the first non-whitespace text in the
line.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_WORD_START</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the span will only be highlighted if
the start sequence occurs at the beginning of a word.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>DELEGATE</literal> - text inside the span will be
highlighted with the specified ruleset. To delegate to a ruleset
defined in the current mode, just specify its name. To delegate
to a ruleset defined in another mode, specify a name of the form
<literal><replaceable>mode</replaceable>::<replaceable>ruleset</replaceable></literal>.
Note that the first (unnamed) ruleset in a mode is called
<quote>MAIN</quote>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>MATCH_TYPE</literal> - Controls how the start and
end of the sequence will be highlighted. See <xref
linkend="mode-match-type" /> for more information.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>ESCAPE</literal> - specifies a character sequence
for escaping characters. The first character following the escape
sequence is not considered as input for syntax highlighting,
thus being highlighted with rule's token.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>NO_LINE_BREAK</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the span will not cross line
breaks.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>NO_WORD_BREAK</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the span will not cross word
breaks.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Note that the <literal>AT_LINE_START</literal>,
<literal>AT_WHITESPACE_END</literal> and
<literal>AT_WORD_START</literal> attributes can also be used on the
<literal>END</literal> element.</para>
<para>Here is a <literal>SPAN</literal> that highlights Java string
literals, which cannot include line breaks:</para>
<programlisting><SPAN TYPE="LITERAL1" NO_LINE_BREAK="TRUE">
<BEGIN>"</BEGIN>
<END>"</END>
</SPAN></programlisting>
<para>Here is a <literal>SPAN</literal> that highlights Java
documentation comments by delegating to the <quote>JAVADOC</quote>
ruleset defined elsewhere in the current mode:</para>
<programlisting><SPAN TYPE="COMMENT2" DELEGATE="JAVADOC">
<BEGIN>/**</BEGIN>
<END>*/</END>
</SPAN></programlisting>
<para>Here is a <literal>SPAN</literal> that highlights HTML cascading
stylesheets inside <literal><STYLE></literal> tags by delegating
to the main ruleset in the CSS edit mode:</para>
<programlisting><SPAN TYPE="MARKUP" DELEGATE="css::MAIN">
<BEGIN><style></BEGIN>
<END></style></END>
</SPAN></programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-rule-span-regexp">
<title>The SPAN_REGEXP Tag</title>
<para>The <literal>SPAN_REGEXP</literal> rule is similar to the
<literal>SPAN</literal> rule except the start sequence and optionally
the end sequence are taken to be regular expressions. In addition to the
attributes supported by the <literal>SPAN</literal> tag, the following
attributes are supported:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>HASH_CHAR</literal> - a literal string which must
be at the start of a regular expression.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>HASH_CHARS</literal> - a list of possible literal
characters, one of which must match at the start of the regular
expression.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para><literal>HASH_CHAR</literal> and <literal>HASH_CHARS</literal>
attributes are both optional, but you may only specify one, not both. If
both are specified, <literal>HASH_CHARS</literal> is ignored and an
error is shown. Whenever possible, use a literal prefix to specify a
<literal>SPAN_REGEXP</literal>. If the starting prefix is always the
same, use <literal>HASH_CHAR</literal> and provide as much prefix as
possible. Only in rare cases would you omit both attributes, such as the
case where there is no other reliable way to get the highlighting you
need, for example, with comments in the Cobol programming
language.</para>
<para>In addition, the <literal>END</literal> subtag supports the
attribute <literal>REGEXP</literal>, which if set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, tells the highlighter to interpret the
<literal>END</literal> text as a regular expression as well.</para>
<para>The regular expression match cannot span more than one line. Any
text matched by groups in the <literal>BEGIN</literal> regular
expression is substituted in the <literal>END</literal> string. See
below for an example of where this is useful.</para>
<para>Regular expression syntax is described in <xref
linkend="regexps" />.</para>
<para>Here is a <literal>SPAN_REGEXP</literal> rule that highlights
<quote>read-ins</quote> in shell scripts:</para>
<programlisting><SPAN_REGEXP HASH_CHAR="<" TYPE="LITERAL1" DELEGATE="LITERAL">
<BEGIN><![CDATA[<<[\p{Space}'"]*([\p{Alnum}_]+)[\p{Space}'"]*]]></BEGIN>
<END>$1</END>
</SPAN_REGEXP></programlisting>
<para>Here is a <literal>SPAN_REGEXP</literal> rule that highlights
constructs placed between <literal><#ftl</literal> and
<literal>></literal>, as long as the <literal><#ftl</literal> is
followed by a word break:</para>
<programlisting><SPAN_REGEXP TYPE="KEYWORD1" HASH_CHAR="<" DELEGATE="EXPRESSION">
<BEGIN><#ftl\b</BEGIN>
<END>></END>
</SPAN_REGEXP></programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-rule-eol-span">
<title>The EOL_SPAN Tag</title>
<para>An <literal>EOL_SPAN</literal> is similar to a
<literal>SPAN</literal> except that highlighting stops at the end of the
line, and no end sequence needs to be specified. The text to match is
specified between the opening and closing <literal>EOL_SPAN</literal>
tags. The following attributes are supported:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>TYPE</literal> - The token type to highlight the
span with. See <xref linkend="mode-syntax-tokens" /> for a list
of token types.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_LINE_START</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the span will only be highlighted if
the start sequence occurs at the beginning of a line.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_WHITESPACE_END</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the span will only be highlighted if
the sequence is the first non-whitespace text in the
line.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_WORD_START</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the span will only be highlighted if
the start sequence occurs at the beginning of a word.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>DELEGATE</literal> - text inside the span will be
highlighted with the specified ruleset. To delegate to a ruleset
defined in the current mode, just specify its name. To delegate
to a ruleset defined in another mode, specify a name of the form
<literal><replaceable>mode</replaceable>::<replaceable>ruleset</replaceable></literal>.
Note that the first (unnamed) ruleset in a mode is called
<quote>MAIN</quote>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>MATCH_TYPE</literal> - Controls how the start of
the sequence will be highlighted. See <xref
linkend="mode-match-type" /> for more information.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Here is an <literal>EOL_SPAN</literal> that highlights C++
comments:</para>
<programlisting><EOL_SPAN TYPE="COMMENT1">//</EOL_SPAN></programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-rule-eol-span-regexp">
<title>The EOL_SPAN_REGEXP Tag</title>
<para>The <literal>EOL_SPAN_REGEXP</literal> rule is similar to the
<literal>EOL_SPAN</literal> rule except the match sequence is taken to
be a regular expression. In addition to the attributes supported by the
<literal>EOL_SPAN</literal> tag, the following attributes are
supported:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>HASH_CHAR</literal> - a literal string which must
be at the start of a regular expression.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>HASH_CHARS</literal> - a list of possible literal
characters, one of which must match at the start of the regular
expression.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para><literal>HASH_CHAR</literal> and <literal>HASH_CHARS</literal>
attributes are both optional, but you may only specify one, not both. If
both are specified, <literal>HASH_CHARS</literal> is ignored and an
error is shown. Whenever possible, use a literal prefix to specify a
<literal>EOL_SPAN_REGEXP</literal>. If the starting prefix is always the
same, use <literal>HASH_CHAR</literal> and provide as much prefix as
possible. Only in rare cases would you omit both attributes, such as the
case where there is no other reliable way to get the highlighting you
need, for example, with comments in the Cobol programming
language.</para>
<para>The regular expression match cannot span more than one
line.</para>
<para>Regular expression syntax is described in <xref
linkend="regexps" />.</para>
<para>Here is an <literal>EOL_SPAN_REGEXP</literal> that highlights
MS-DOS batch file comments, which start with <literal>REM</literal>,
followed by any whitespace character, and extend until the end of the
line:</para>
<programlisting><EOL_SPAN_REGEXP AT_WHITESPACE_END="TRUE" HASH_CHAR="REM" TYPE="COMMENT1">REM\s</EOL_SPAN_REGEXP></programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-rule-mark-prev">
<title>The MARK_PREVIOUS Tag</title>
<para>The <literal>MARK_PREVIOUS</literal> rule, which must be placed
inside a <literal>RULES</literal> tag, highlights from the end of the
previous syntax token to the matched text. The text to match is
specified between opening and closing <literal>MARK_PREVIOUS</literal>
tags. The following attributes are supported:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>TYPE</literal> - The token type to highlight the
text with. See <xref linkend="mode-syntax-tokens" /> for a list
of token types.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_LINE_START</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the sequence will only be highlighted
if it occurs at the beginning of a line.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_WHITESPACE_END</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the sequence will only be highlighted
if it is the first non-whitespace text in the line.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_WORD_START</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the sequence will only be highlighted
if it occurs at the beginning of a word.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>MATCH_TYPE</literal> - Controls how the matched
region will be highlighted. See <xref
linkend="mode-match-type" /> for more information.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Here is a rule that highlights labels in Java mode (for example,
<quote>XXX:</quote>):</para>
<programlisting><MARK_PREVIOUS AT_WHITESPACE_END="TRUE"
MATCH_TYPE="DEFAULT">:</MARK_PREVIOUS></programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-rule-mark-following">
<title>The MARK_FOLLOWING Tag</title>
<para>The <literal>MARK_FOLLOWING</literal> rule, which must be placed
inside a <literal>RULES</literal> tag, highlights from the start of the
match to the next syntax token. The text to match is specified between
opening and closing <literal>MARK_FOLLOWING</literal> tags. The
following attributes are supported:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>TYPE</literal> - The token type to highlight the
text with. See <xref linkend="mode-syntax-tokens" /> for a list
of token types.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_LINE_START</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the sequence will only be highlighted
if it occurs at the beginning of a line.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_WHITESPACE_END</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the sequence will only be highlighted
if it is the first non-whitespace text in the line.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_WORD_START</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the sequence will only be highlighted
if it occurs at the beginning of a word.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>MATCH_TYPE</literal> - Controls how the matched
region will be highlighted. See <xref
linkend="mode-match-type" /> for more information.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Here is a rule that highlights variables in Unix shell scripts
(<quote>$CLASSPATH</quote>, <quote>$IFS</quote>, etc):</para>
<programlisting><MARK_FOLLOWING TYPE="KEYWORD2">$</MARK_FOLLOWING></programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-rule-seq">
<title>The SEQ Tag</title>
<para>The <literal>SEQ</literal> rule, which must be placed inside a
<literal>RULES</literal> tag, highlights fixed sequences of text. The
text to highlight is specified between opening and closing
<literal>SEQ</literal> tags. The following attributes are
supported:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>TYPE</literal> - the token type to highlight the
sequence with. See <xref linkend="mode-syntax-tokens" /> for a
list of token types.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_LINE_START</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the sequence will only be highlighted
if it occurs at the beginning of a line.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_WHITESPACE_END</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the sequence will only be highlighted
if it is the first non-whitespace text in the line.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>AT_WORD_START</literal> - If set to
<literal>TRUE</literal>, the sequence will only be highlighted
if it occurs at the beginning of a word.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>DELEGATE</literal> - if this attribute is
specified, all text after the sequence will be highlighted using
this ruleset. To delegate to a ruleset defined in the current
mode, just specify its name. To delegate to a ruleset defined in
another mode, specify a name of the form
<literal><replaceable>mode</replaceable>::<replaceable>ruleset</replaceable></literal>.
Note that the first (unnamed) ruleset in a mode is called
<quote>MAIN</quote>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The following rules highlight a few Java operators:</para>
<programlisting><SEQ TYPE="OPERATOR">+</SEQ>
<SEQ TYPE="OPERATOR">-</SEQ>
<SEQ TYPE="OPERATOR">*</SEQ>
<SEQ TYPE="OPERATOR">/</SEQ></programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-rule-seq-regexp">
<title>The SEQ_REGEXP Tag</title>
<para>The <literal>SEQ_REGEXP</literal> rule is similar to the
<literal>SEQ</literal> rule except the match sequence is taken to be a
regular expression. In addition to the attributes supported by the
<literal>SEQ</literal> tag, the following attributes are
supported:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>HASH_CHAR</literal> - a literal string which must
be at the start of a regular expression.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>HASH_CHARS</literal> - a list of possible literal
characters, one of which must match at the start of the regular
expression.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para><literal>HASH_CHAR</literal> and <literal>HASH_CHARS</literal>
attributes are both optional, but you may only specify one, not both. If
both are specified, <literal>HASH_CHARS</literal> is ignored and an
error is shown. Whenever possible, use a literal prefix to specify a
<literal>SEQ_REGEXP</literal>. If the starting prefix is always the
same, use <literal>HASH_CHAR</literal> and provide as much prefix as
possible. Only in rare cases would you omit both attributes, such as the
case where there is no other reliable way to get the highlighting you
need, for example, with comments in the Cobol programming
language.</para>
<para>The regular expression match cannot span more than one
line.</para>
<para>Regular expression syntax is described in <xref
linkend="regexps" />.</para>
<para><emphasis role="bold">NOTE</emphasis>: c-style character escaping
for literals (such as the tab char: \t) do not work as attribute values
in XML. Use the XML character entity instead. For example: 	
instead of \t.</para>
<para>Here is a <literal>SEQ_REGEXP</literal> rule from moin.xml that
uses the <literal>HASH_CHARS</literal> attribute, to describe a keyword
(wikiword) that can start with any uppercase letter and contain lower
case letters and at least one uppercase letter in the middle.</para>
<programlisting>
<SEQ_REGEXP HASH_CHARS="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" AT_WORD_START="TRUE"
TYPE="KEYWORD2">[A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+</SEQ_REGEXP>
</programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-rule-import">
<title>The IMPORT Tag</title>
<para>The <literal>IMPORT</literal> tag, which must be placed inside a
<literal>RULES</literal> tag, loads all rules defined in a given ruleset
into the current ruleset; in other words, it has the same effect as
copying and pasting the imported ruleset.</para>
<para>The only required attribute <literal>DELEGATE</literal> must be
set to the name of a ruleset. To import a ruleset defined in the current
mode, just specify its name. To import a ruleset defined in another
mode, specify a name of the form
<literal><replaceable>mode</replaceable>::<replaceable>ruleset</replaceable></literal>.
Note that the first (unnamed) ruleset in a mode is called
<quote>MAIN</quote>.</para>
<para>One quirk is that the definition of the imported ruleset is not
copied to the location of the <literal>IMPORT</literal> tag, but rather
to the end of the containing ruleset. This has implications with
rule-ordering; see <xref linkend="rule-ordering" />.</para>
<para>Here is an example from the PHP mode, which extends the inline
JavaScript highlighting to support embedded PHP:</para>
<programlisting>
<RULES SET="JAVASCRIPT+PHP">
<SPAN TYPE="MARKUP" DELEGATE="php::PHP">
<BEGIN><?php</BEGIN>
<END>?></END>
</SPAN>
<SPAN TYPE="MARKUP" DELEGATE="php::PHP">
<BEGIN><?</BEGIN>
<END>?></END>
</SPAN>
<SPAN TYPE="MARKUP" DELEGATE="php::PHP">
<BEGIN><%=</BEGIN>
<END>%></END>
</SPAN>
<IMPORT DELEGATE="javascript::MAIN"/>
</RULES></programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-rule-keywords">
<title>The KEYWORDS Tag</title>
<para>The <literal>KEYWORDS</literal> tag, which must be placed inside a
<literal>RULES</literal> tag and can only appear once, specifies a list
of keywords to highlight. Keywords are similar to
<literal>SEQ</literal>s, except that <literal>SEQ</literal>s match
anywhere in the text, whereas keywords only match whole words. Words are
considered to be runs of text separated by non-alphanumeric
characters.</para>
<para>The <literal>KEYWORDS</literal> tag does not define any
attributes.</para>
<para>Each child element of the <literal>KEYWORDS</literal> tag is an
element whose name is a token type, and whose content is the keyword to
highlight. For example, the following rule highlights the most common
Java keywords:</para>
<programlisting><KEYWORDS>
<KEYWORD1>if</KEYWORD1>
<KEYWORD1>else</KEYWORD1>
<KEYWORD3>int</KEYWORD3>
<KEYWORD3>void</KEYWORD3>
</KEYWORDS></programlisting>
</section>
<section id="mode-syntax-tokens">
<title>Token Types</title>
<para>The various token types are used to syntax highlight particular
words in a language. This makes code easier to read. There is a wide
latitude in the usage of the token types, and really it depends on the
specifics of the language as to which token represents which type. Some
examples are given below, but these are just guidelines, not hard and
fast rules.</para>
<para>Many languages include constructs from other languages. One common
example is html files can include javascript and css blocks. Several of
the mode tags support a DELEGATE attribute, which will allow a section
of text to be passed to a different mode for highlighting. The html mode
delegates to the javascript mode for javascript blocks and to the css
mode for style blocks. Use of the DELEGATE attribute is highly encouraged
when appropriate since it makes writing modes easier, reduces duplication,
and promotes visual consistency across languages.</para>
<para>Parser rules can highlight tokens using any of the following token
types:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>NULL</literal> - no special highlighting is
performed on tokens of type <literal>NULL</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>COMMENT1</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>COMMENT2</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>COMMENT3</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>COMMENT4</literal></para>
<para>jEdit supports four different types of comment tokens.
Generally, comments are programmer-readable constructs that are
ignored by compilers and interpreters. As an example, the lisp
mode defines four comment types:
</para>
<para><EOL_SPAN TYPE="COMMENT4">;;;;</EOL_SPAN></para>
<para><EOL_SPAN TYPE="COMMENT3">;;;</EOL_SPAN></para>
<para><EOL_SPAN TYPE="COMMENT2">;;</EOL_SPAN></para>
<para><EOL_SPAN TYPE="COMMENT1">;</EOL_SPAN></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>FUNCTION</literal></para>
<para>The function token is intended to identify functions, methods,
procedures, routines, or named subprograms.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>DIGIT</literal></para>
<para>The digit token is to identify numbers.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>INVALID</literal><!-- - tokens of this type are
automatically added if a <literal>NO_WORD_BREAK</literal> or
<literal>NO_LINE_BREAK</literal> <literal>SPAN</literal> spans more than
one word or line, respectively. -->
<para>The invalid type is to indicate that particular words are
not to be used, for example, the java mode defined both "goto"
and "const" as invalid words. These are words that are defined
by the language, but are not to be used.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>KEYWORD1</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>KEYWORD2</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>KEYWORD3</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>KEYWORD4</literal></para>
<para>
Keywords are used to identify well-defined words within a
language. Some languages naturally divide keywords into
groups, for example, the pascal mode identifies "for" as a
KEYWORD1, "private" as a KEYWORD2, and "int" as a KEYWORD3.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>LABEL</literal></para>
<para>A label is generally a named position within a source, for
example, the ada mode defined a label as <<foo>>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>LITERAL1</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>LITERAL2</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>LITERAL3</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>LITERAL4</literal></para>
<para>
Literals are usually, but not always, uninterpreted strings,
for example, "foo" or 'bar'. There are a wide variety of
usages of literals in the mode files.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>MARKUP</literal></para>
<para>
The markup token is generally used in the various "markup"
languages, such as xml and html. Markup is used for those
elements that are not specified as words belonging to the
language. For example, in html, <body> would be
considered a keyword, where <foo> would be considered
markup.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>OPERATOR</literal></para>
<para>
Common examples of operators are the math symbols, such as
'+', '-', and so on.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section id="mode-match-type">
<title>The MATCH_TYPE Attribute</title>
<para>The <literal>MATCH_TYPE</literal> attribute is used by some of the
rules to control how the region matched by the rule will be
highlighted.</para>
<para>For example, when using a <literal>MARK_PREVIOUS</literal> rule to
highlight a function call of the form <literal>fcall()</literal>, the
following rule could be used:</para>
<programlisting>
<MARK_PREVIOUS TYPE="FUNCTION" MATCH_TYPE="OPERATOR">(</MARK_PREVIOUS></programlisting>
<para>This would cause <literal>fcall</literal> to be highlighted as
<literal>FUNCTION</literal>, and <literal>(</literal> to be highlighted
as <literal>OPERATOR</literal>. In this case, to maintain bracket
matching working, a <literal>SEQ</literal> rule would have to be added
to match <literal>)</literal> and mark it as
<literal>OPERATOR</literal>.</para>
<para>The <literal>MATCH_TYPE</literal> attribute value can be any of
the valid token types, or the following special values:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>RULE</literal>: this is the default value. It
tells the syntax system to use the same token type as the TYPE
attribute of the rule. This is equivalent to
<literal>EXCLUDE_MATCH="FALSE"</literal> in 4.2 and earlier mode
files.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>CONTEXT</literal>: using this value tells the
syntax system to mark the matched region using the default token
type for the current rule set. In 4.2 and earlier mode files,
this was specified by
<literal>EXCLUDE_MATCH="TRUE"</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</chapter>
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