A Sublime Text 2 Syntax Highlighter

Game Development
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Screenshot: http://sadpanda.us/images/1418064-CUEGT4T.png
Download: https://github.com/cerey/choicescript

I was mainly inspired by @aetheria’s TextWrangler mod and figured I’d make one for Sublime Text 2. In theory this should also work with Textmate as well, but I haven’t tried.

It highlights *commands, #choices, ${stuff}, *comments, (±)variables, stuff in quotation marks, and a todo added for my own convenience (just type TODO or todo anywhere). The screenshot is taken with the Twilight theme, which I find easiest on the eyes.

Install: copy CS.tmLanguage to your package directory, which you can find via Preferences>Browse Packages. Restart Sublime if necessary. If it doesn’t automatically recognize a .txt file as a CS file, you can change it manually via View>Syntax>CS. After the first file it should remember automatically.

If you find something that should be highlighted and isn’t, please do tell me! The source (CS.JSON-tmLanguage) was made with AAA PackageDev if you want to play around with it.

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Neato! If I weren’t so poor I would totally get Sublime Text and use this instead :wink:

But, now I’m curious about the game in the screenshot… a WIP?

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@aetheria Actually, there’s a free version of Sublime available as well, if you want to try it out. It’s a pretty good editor, but the free version bugs you every 100 saves with a popup. Dx

And yeah, it is! However, it’s still pretty far from hatching, because I want to get a big chunk of it done before putting it up for beta.

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Please tell me what I’m doing wrong. All the packages appear to have the extension…

.sublime-package

…but I don’t see any with an extension of…

.tmLanguage

…so did I perhaps put cs.tmLanguage in the wrong directory? Or is the directory with all the .sublime-package files the right one? Because when I bring up…

View>Syntax

…there is no option for CS.

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I think we’ve had this discussion before but I just wanted to point out that there isn’t a “free” version of sublime, it’s an evaluation version. You’re expected to buy it if you find yourself using it regularly. Details I know, by all means use it without paying that’s your choice but for the sake of the developers I wanted to point that out. Strictly speaking not buying it but using it regularly is theft.

Regardless good to see more syntax highlighters! Thanks!

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I downloaded it, and I mean this as literally as possible, last night to evaluate it. Never got past trying to get the CS highlighter to work.

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Still haven’t gotten the highlighter to work, but Sublime 2 is growing on me quickly.

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I don’t use this stuff? what is their purpose? i couldn’t use them in mobiles their make code automatic?

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I still have to use proper indentation, but it keeps the lines numbered and in proper alignment.

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a ok i got something similar in my android even enumerate the code link, its useful to search error and keep indentation.

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Still can’t get it to work, and I messaged the OP privately with no response.

Anyone else?

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@DaveDPF I’ve been going without a computer for a while, but I’ll try to get access to one sometime next week and see what I can do. Sorry for the late reply.

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@seryou No Problem, I know real life gets in the way sometimes. I’ve lived without it for this long, I can wait a little longer. :wink:

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I also followed your instructions on a Mac and wasn’t able to get i to show up as one of the syntax highlighting options.

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@DaveDPF @HoraceTorys, try this:

Instead of sticking the .tmLanguage file in ~\Sublime 2\Packages, try putting it in either ~\Sublime 2\Packages\User or ~Sublime 2\Packages\CS (create a new folder for it).

If this turns out to be the solution, I’m going to blush. It’s a pretty silly mistake on my part… @_@

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Still can’t get it to show up as an option, and I’ve got it in all the places mentioned.