Support for YAML-TMLanguage
Currently, this library can natively parse TMLanguage from JSON and PLIST formats.
I suggest extending these "natively supported" formats with YAML.
YAML is a convenient format for creating TMLanguage because:
- compact (no unnecessary curly brackets or tags)
- supports comments (useful for complicated regexps, for example)
- complicated regexps can be formatted to multiple lines, which helps improve readability
For example, GitHub Linguist also supports YAML-TMLanguage natively or TypeScript TMLanguage written in YAML
A possible (and the most simple) solution could be to use the js-yaml parser, although I'm not sure about this, since as I can see this library does not use external dependencies
Hi,
I recently made a direct port of the YAML-tmLanguage syntax highlighting from Sublime Text to a VS Code Extension:
- radium-v/yaml-tmlanguage
- https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=radium-v.yaml-tmlanguage
I use this to develop my Better Less extension, which is currently the built-in grammar package for Less in VS Code.
While this improves the syntax highlighting for the YAML-tmLanguage file, I'm still currently using Sublime Text to convert the YAML-tmLanguage file to tmLanguage PLIST format. It would be awesome if VS Code supported this format directly, so I didn't have to run it through this conversion.
Both PLIST and JSON are data streaming formats, whereas YAML is much more human-readable and easier to work with.