Language Definition Issues
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I’ve cobbled together a customized version of a definition for Lua suitable for a particular API I’m working with (adding in keywords and constants from the API) but I have some issues.
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There is an undocumented limit to the number of keywords in a given keyword group. I’d like to know if there’s any way I can lift that limit or if that is somehow a technological barrier. This API has hundreds and hundreds of pre-defined functions and constants and I while I can get them in, I can’t get them in easily - I have to split them up and I have to go with “prefix mode” on the constants which loses me absolute validation on the names and risks marking things as constants that aren’t sometimes.
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Certain keywords from the API are relatively common words (I didn’t write it, I just use it). Things like ID and Name and such. I’d like very much to be able to differentiate between usage in Name() and MyTable.Name - right now, both “Name” entries are being treated as the keyword. and it’s quite confusing to look at.
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With the folders if, else, elseif, and end, if the end is the last word in the file and I do not follow it with an end-of-line mark or a space, it isn’t being recognized. I’ve verified that with the pre-defined lua language definition it is. I can’t figure out how to get what I’m doing to mimic that. That’s not true, by the way, for parentheses. If the last line of a file is the closing parenthesis of an in-line function, for example, that gets formatted correctly and it’s recognized as matched to it’s opening parenthesis.
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The decimal point is not appearing as part of “numbers” and I can’t figure out why. I made no special settings in the numbers section of the UDL dialog and I did verify that “dot” is selected as the Decimal separator (sic). It shows up, but 1234.56 shows up with 1234 formatted how I say to format numbers and .56 shows up like default text.
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I can’t figure out how to set my language definition to be the default one for the file types involved. I can set a file to my language definition, but there doesn’t seem to be a place to say “If the extension is .lua, use myLua” anywhere. How do I set that? Surely you don’t have to do this one file at a time forever do you?
I have more questions, but let’s start with just those five. They’re the most pressing.
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