Hello,

Here's a much improved Tcl language edit mode, based on the one in the latest source.

Changes:

• Fixed comments detection: Only # at the beginning of Tcl commands are comments!
• Quoted strings can span multiple lines.
• Added recursive in-string substituted command and variable analysis.
• Added numerous missing tcl keywords and variables up to version 8.4.14.
• Removed $ on global variable keywords, as they're often used with $::.
• Added Expect keywords, as KEYWORD2. ("send" was already in tk as KEYWORD2)
• Avoid colouring substituted variables that are homonyms of a keyword.
• Highlight hexadecimal numbers too.

Known limitations:

• Unbalanced quotes or brackets within braces, such as in regular expressions, will confuse the analysis. Add behind the confusing instruction a ;# comment with closing quotes and brackets, to trick it into thinking it's balanced again.

Known bugs (Were there before, and I failed to fix them):

• \c escape colouring does not work for escapes embedded in words. I attemted numerous workarounds using spans and regexps, but they all seem to fail to detect anything beginning with a \. And using NO_ESCAPE="TRUE" does not help.
• {} within quoted strings should not affect indentation.

Any hint at how to fix the last two known bugs is welcome!

Updated on 10/20/2006 - 14:56
Downloads: 1175