On 4/25/08 at 7:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Armin
Deierling) wrote:
I searched the archives and learned that in some cases BBEdit
greps the shebang line e.g. #!/bin/sh to determine Shell, Perl,
etc modes.
Why can't this be extended to more general usage like it is
done in editors like nedit where you can specify grep pattern
to scan the first lines of the file.
In my case I regularly insert a comment in the first line like
; ### scheme ###
and it works perfectly in nedit.
Here's an excerpt from the BBEdit 8.6 change notes:
+ If a file contains an Emacs variable block (or line) with
a "mode: " variable in it, BBEdit will attempt to match
the mode
name against the installed languages, before attempting
to match
the file name suffix or guess based on the file's contents.
By default, a language module's mode name is based on the
language's display name, converted to lower case and
with spaces
changed to hyphens. Thus, "Grep Search Pattern" would become
"grep-search-pattern".
For additional flexibility, the language module
developer can
specify a list of Emacs modes that should match that language
(above and beyond the mode derived from the language's display
name). This is done in the language module's plist with the
BBLMEmacsModeNames, which is an array of strings, thus:
<key>BBLMEmacsModeNames</key>
<array>
<string>object-pascal</string>
<string>mpw-pascal</string>
<string>lightspeed-pascal</string>
</array>
(This example provided for illustrative and
entertainment purposes only.)
Enjoy,
R.
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