I see there's at least some precedent 
<https://github.com/zargony/atom-language-rust> for atom-language-julia 
maybe? Would this plugin be entirely atom-specific, or could other editors 
also reuse the same code?


On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 3:41:08 PM UTC-7, John Myles White wrote:
>
> It is a very strong convention, though.
>
>  -- John
>
> On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 1:52:01 PM UTC-7, Spencer Lyon wrote:
>>
>> Definitely not a requirement, just convention.
>>
>> If there are other proposals out there I'm happy to entertain them.
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 1:51:07 PM UTC-7, Tony Kelman wrote:
>>>
>>> Does atom require you to name the repository language-julia? I'm 
>>> generally in favor of your plan here but maybe a more specific repo name 
>>> would be clearer, if that's possible?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 10:33:45 AM UTC-7, Spencer Lyon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Right now the atom package for adding syntax highlighting for Julia is 
>>>> https://github.com/tpoisot/language-julia
>>>>
>>>> Based on issues like this one (
>>>> https://github.com/tpoisot/language-julia/issues/8) it seems like the 
>>>> grammar.cson is incorrect.
>>>>
>>>> I did a fresh restart of the grammar based on the official text mate 
>>>> bundle https://github.com/JuliaLang/Julia.tmbundle and all these 
>>>> issues seem to be resolved. It is a relief to not have syntax highlighting 
>>>> treat everything as a string mid-file!
>>>>
>>>> I've also added everything in Base.REPLCompletions.latex_symbols 
>>>> and Base.REPLCompletions.emoji_symbols as snippets.
>>>>
>>>> I'm writing here to propose two things:
>>>>
>>>> 1.  Contact the maintainer of the current language-julia atom package, 
>>>> merge in the new features he has added, and begin using the new one 
>>>> generated from the tmBundle as the official Julia support for atom
>>>> 2. To make it seem more "official" I  would like house the repository 
>>>> under the JuliaLang github organization in a repo 
>>>> JuliaLang/language-julia. 
>>>>
>>>> What do people think about this idea?
>>>>
>>>

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