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Tagging Custom Languages Help With kind-spec

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Started 3 years ago by swiftnano
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swiftnano
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Hi,

I have only been using PN for a couple of weeks by I must thank the developers as this is the best programming orientated editor I have ever used, and I have used alot!

I have been struggling with this for ages so wondered if someone could help.

I cannot seem to get the tag kinds to work correctly and it seems to be working differently to the online documentation however I am sure I must be doing something wrong. Below is my custom tagging section from the file additionalLanguages.conf

--langdef=VBScript
--langmap=VBScript:.vbs
--regex-VBScript=/^Sub ([A-za-z0-9]*\>)/\1/c,Class/i
--regex-VBScript=/^Function ([A-za-z0-9]*\>)/\1/f,Function/i

Here is the section from the file additionalSupportedSchemes.ini
[VBScript]
c = 3
f = 1

The above correctly tags all VBScript Sub's and Functions however the tag heading for the subs is unknown.

If I change it to s,Section and s = 3 they all end up under the function heading.

I must admit I find the documentation and example a little confusing as the kind-spec is set to s,Section then in the ini file s = 39 which is not no the list and appears as entity?

What I have found if that often the tag type will corrispond to the letter you chose i.e. c will appear as Class, v as Variable etc rather than the number you assign in the ini file.

Can anyone help me with this?

Also is there any way to add new tag types as this would be a great feature as you can see I am using Class to tag Sub's as there is no Subroutine or Sub tag type.

Thanks in advance

Posted 3 years ago #
swiftnano
Member

bump ;-)

Can anyone help me with this or even confirm the behaviour so that I know it is not just something I am doing wrong?

Posted 3 years ago #
simon
PN Developer

Hi, I haven't forgotten about this, I'll try and take a look this evening.

Posted 3 years ago #
swiftnano
Member

Thanks for looking into this.

I look forward to your comments.

Posted 2 years ago #
Nux
Member

As seems defining new extensions and schemes doesn't work.

This works:
--langdef=properties --langmap=properties:.ini --regex-properties=/[ \t]*function (.+)[ \t]*\(/\1/s,Section/ --regex-properties=/[ \t]*test (.+)[ \t]*\(/\1/s,Section/
This doesn't
--langdef=properties --langmap=properties:.as --regex-properties=/[ \t]*function (.+)[ \t]*\(/\1/s,Section/
And this doesn't (note that I have defined the scheme as f = 1):
--langdef=properties --langmap=properties:.ini --regex-properties=/[ \t]*function (.+)[ \t]*\(/\1/f,Function/

I've also found this line in a changelog of 2.0.8.718:

28) ctags tag provider is now an extension, custom tagger
plugin format removed

Does that mean that it won't work?

Posted 2 years ago #
Nux
Member

BTW. Is there some easy way to use the same tagging in a new (custom) format just as in an existing format (I want to use JavaScript tagger for ActionScript).

Posted 2 years ago #
Nux
Member

Scratch that - I got it working :-). As seems one need to have exact same name of the language in the additionalLanguages.conf, additionalSupportedSchemes.ini, extmap.dat and *.scheme. You also need to use the same extension as in extmap.dat

Posted 2 years ago #
swiftnano
Member

Just downloaded the latest release (Thanks again for an amazing application).

After not solving this a year ago the new version prompted me to have another crack at it and I have it sorted! Whooo!

I decided to learn more about what ctags was doing and the answer became clearer after this. To get my VBScript files tagged properly I did the following

Added to additionalLanguages.conf
--langmap=Asp:+.vbs

This tells ctags to use the Asp regular expressions for *.vbs (this was simpler than defining a custom language and writing my own regular expressions as I was doing previously)

Added to additionalSupportedSchemes.ini
[vbscript]
s = 1
f = 1
d = 4
v = 13

(If you want subs and functions defined separately change s = 1 to s = 10

My main mistake here previously was the case of "vbscript" (Silly mistake coming from two much time with case insensitive languages)

I may still look at the code to see if I can tweak the ordering of the tags (I'd like them to be alphabetic) and add some more tag descriptions. Do you think this is an easy intro to the code?

Hope this helps someone.

Posted 1 year ago #
simon
PN Developer

Thanks for the update, glad you got it working.

As for sorting the tags, it depends on how much C++ you know. If you're familiar with it then probably not too bad, if not then it could be more work! Feel free to file a feature request for the tag tree to be sorted in some way.

Posted 1 year ago #

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