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   pbb
   Member

   Hi all,

   Hope someone can help. I'd like to add tags support for .vbs (VBScript) files. I edited the taggers\ctags\additionalLanguages.conf file.

   Running from the command-line works great. "ctags --options=taggers\ctags\additionalLanguages.conf testfile.vbs" creates a "tags" file in the PN directory with all tags from that file.

   However, in PN the Tags window stays empty, even after restarting PN.

   Do I have to do anything special to make PN re-read the additionalLanguages.conf file? I am using PN 2.0.9.794-devel.

   Thanks, Peter

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   simon
   PN Developer

   Have you seen this:

   http://pnotepad.org/docs/howto/tag_custom_languages

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   pbb
   Member

   Ok, I seem to have managed now. But the documentation is very confusing.

   - The document you pointed to refers a "see TAG FILE FORMAT, below", but there is nothing to be found that is called "tag file format".
   - The section names in additionalSupportedSchemes.ini refer to scheme section names instead of the more logical langdef names from the additionalLanguages.conf file.
   - Following that, you would think the single-letter "kind-spec" are mapped to styles from the same scheme, but instead they are to a tag type from additionalSupportedSchemes.ini.
   - The result is that the Tagger window puts tags in categories that are not commonly used for that language; for example I have to use "Procedure" (2) for VBScript subs, because "Subroutines" are not listed as a tag type.
   - To hide the mixing of schemes and langdefs, the example for "properties" uses the same name for the langdeg and the scheme name.
   - The additionalSupportedSchemes.ini that is included with PN, maps "s" from [Properties] to a non-existent (or undocumented) tag type "39". (The list stops at 35.)

   Sorry, just some complaining trying to get this to work... PN is really a great program anyway ;)

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   simon
   PN Developer

   Thanks for the feedback, the docs are a wiki so you could perhaps contribute to their improvement :)

   • The values in additionalSupportedSchemes.ini must map to scheme names as PN needs to know how to associate the tags with its own concept of languages (schemes).
   • The mapping to tag type is because there is no mapping from styling (what you see) to code structure (tags).
   • I think the solution here is to group the display differently so the word "Procedure" doesn't have to be used. Conceptually a subroutine and a procedure are pretty similar.
   • Maybe our guidance should be to use the scheme name for the langdef name - this would simplify matters.

   Posted 3 years ago #

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