TextMate is free-form in the sense that you can assign basically any name you wish to any part of the document that you can markup with the grammar system and then use that name in scope selectors. This will correctly match a string like: qq( this (is (the) entire) string). This can also be used to match recursive constructs like balanced characters: patterns = ( This will give you a starting grammar which will look like the one below, so let us start by explaining that. You can create a new language grammar by opening the bundle editor (Window → Show Bundle Editor) and select “New Language” from the add button in the lower left corner. Then scope selectors can be used for styling, preferences and deciding how keys and tab triggers should expand.įor a more thorough introduction to this concept see the introduction to scopes blog post. The language grammar is used only to parse the document and assign names to subsets of this document.
For example you may want a key stroke or tab trigger to act differently depending on the context, or you may want to disable spell check as you type those portions of your text document which are not prose (e.g. The purpose of this is to allow styling (syntax highlighting) and to make the text editor “smart” about which context the caret is in. Language grammars are used to assign names to document elements such as keywords, comments, strings or similar.
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