Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

[Sebastian Gniazdowski]

Hello,
again so much has been added to FSH that I've decided to write.

Ideal brackets highlighting, resilient to quoting – note the sidx=...,
eidx=... lines:

http://psprint.blinkenshell.org/theme.png

That's the general demo of FSH. It shows themes, math-mode
highlighting, etc. Note that it also does assign-highlighting – the
math=... etc. lines would normally be plain white.

Demonstration of chroma architecture (it treats zsh -c specifically,
descents to -c contents), and recursivity (eval):

http://psprint.blinkenshell.org/highlight-much.png

This normally looks like following:

http://psprint.blinkenshell.org/highlight-less.png

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Re: Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

[Ray Andrews]

On 03/08/18 11:45 PM, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> Hello,
> again so much has been added to FSH that I've decided to write.
>
> Ideal brackets highlighting, resilient to quoting – note the sidx=...,
> eidx=... lines:
>
> http://psprint.blinkenshell.org/theme.png

That's pretty cool.  Are you saying you've got the shell colorizing 
itself?  Various editors do that of course.

Re: Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

[Sebastian Gniazdowski]

On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 at 15:43, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> On 03/08/18 11:45 PM, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> > Ideal brackets highlighting, resilient to quoting – note the sidx=...,
> > eidx=... lines:
> >
> > http://psprint.blinkenshell.org/theme.png
>
> That's pretty cool.  Are you saying you've got the shell colorizing
> itself?  Various editors do that of course.

Yes, brackets (three types: ( ), { }, [ ]) are detected, paired and
highlighted by the shell, by plugin zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting.
Also, after pointing cursor at some bracket, its matched, paired
bracket is highlighted with blue background:

https://asciinema.org/a/194986

The point is that the code of the solution guarantees correct bracket
highlighting and pairing, no quoting can disturb it, so e.g.
constructing a pattern- or regex-hogs is much easier now, such string
will be divided into blocks delimited by ( ) and [ ] brackets ( { }
aren't used, at least by patterns, AFAIK).

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Re: Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

[Ray Andrews]

On 04/08/18 07:13 AM, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> The point is that the code of the solution guarantees correct bracket
> highlighting and pairing, no quoting can disturb it, so e.g.
> constructing a pattern- or regex-hogs is much easier now, such string
> will be divided into blocks delimited by ( ) and [ ] brackets ( { }
> aren't used, at least by patterns, AFAIK).
I'll be sure to try that out next time I do any coding.

Re: Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

[David Klann]

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ZSH continues to amaze me after more than 20 years of using it!

This "add-on" ("plugin", "theme", etc.) is amazing! I keep a casual eye
on changes and progress in command line "technology", and this is one
that is immediately useful!

Thanks, Sabastian, for your work on Fast Syntax Highlighting!

  ~David


On 08/04/2018 09:13 AM, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 at 15:43, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/08/18 11:45 PM, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
>>> Ideal brackets highlighting, resilient to quoting – note the sidx=...,
>>> eidx=... lines:
>>>
>>> http://psprint.blinkenshell.org/theme.png
>>
>> That's pretty cool.  Are you saying you've got the shell colorizing
>> itself?  Various editors do that of course.
> 
> Yes, brackets (three types: ( ), { }, [ ]) are detected, paired and
> highlighted by the shell, by plugin zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting.
> Also, after pointing cursor at some bracket, its matched, paired
> bracket is highlighted with blue background:
> 
> https://asciinema.org/a/194986
> 
> The point is that the code of the solution guarantees correct bracket
> highlighting and pairing, no quoting can disturb it, so e.g.
> constructing a pattern- or regex-hogs is much easier now, such string
> will be divided into blocks delimited by ( ) and [ ] brackets ( { }
> aren't used, at least by patterns, AFAIK).
> 


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Re: Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

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Wouldn't you mind to:

1) add some "top-level" menion of secondary themes (with description that it 
is the theme to apply inside `$()`) in the documentation (both in READDME and 
`fast-theme -h`)?

===

2) add some way to load the (custom) themes from outside of FSH repo?
It would be good if, say, fast-theme will support:
 - some environment variable with additional themes location path(s)
 - "loading" themes by full path (even if that path isn't on the currently 
"known" paths)

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3) add some "easy" way for dumping current "theme" (with all the active 
redefinitions) in ini-format (to use as the new theme).


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mva

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Re: Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

[Sebastian Gniazdowski]

On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 at 17:08, David Klann <dklann@grunch.org> wrote:
>
> ZSH continues to amaze me after more than 20 years of using it!
>
> This "add-on" ("plugin", "theme", etc.) is amazing! I keep a casual eye
> on changes and progress in command line "technology", and this is one
> that is immediately useful!
>
> Thanks, Sabastian, for your work on Fast Syntax Highlighting!
>
>   ~David

Thanks, it's 3 years now of gradual extending of what's possible, in
large extent motivated by user hints. I mean, I didn't know this would
go that far, but users often mentioned what would be cool, and it
turned out to be possible. It was a long process.

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Re: Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

also, I've just found that you've limited brackets highlighting by 3, 
irrelevant to the count specified in current theme.

Although, "original" z-s-h, AFAIRC, doesn't limit it at all (see highlighters/
brackets/brackets-highlighter.zsh) and have definitions for 5 levels by 
default.

It would be nice if F-S-H wouldn't also limit "deepness" of bracket levels to 
highlight...
Although, I'm not sure about parser speed penalty for that :-/

Re: Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

[Sebastian Gniazdowski]

On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 at 17:15, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <zsh@mva.name> wrote:
>
> Wouldn't you mind to:
>
> 1) add some "top-level" menion of secondary themes (with description that it
> is the theme to apply inside `$()`) in the documentation (both in READDME and
> `fast-theme -h`)?

Ok. It's a constant pain, easy but not easy to describe things queued
for README.md.

> ===
>
> 2) add some way to load the (custom) themes from outside of FSH repo?
> It would be good if, say, fast-theme will support:
>  - some environment variable with additional themes location path(s)
>  - "loading" themes by full path (even if that path isn't on the currently
> "known" paths)

A user had a cool idea, to simply do `fast-theme ~/custom.ini`. It can
use shorthand `fast-theme XDG:custom`, where XDG ==
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/fsh. Full description of how this
resolved (today) is at:

https://github.com/zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting/issues/49

> ===
>
> 3) add some "easy" way for dumping current "theme" (with all the active
> redefinitions) in ini-format (to use as the new theme).

Interesting idea, thanks.

>
> --
> wbr,
> mva

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Re: Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

[Sebastian Gniazdowski]

On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 at 18:13, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <zsh@mva.name> wrote:
>
> also, I've just found that you've limited brackets highlighting by 3,
> irrelevant to the count specified in current theme.
>
> Although, "original" z-s-h, AFAIRC, doesn't limit it at all (see highlighters/
> brackets/brackets-highlighter.zsh) and have definitions for 5 levels by
> default.
>
> It would be nice if F-S-H wouldn't also limit "deepness" of bracket levels to
> highlight...
> Although, I'm not sure about parser speed penalty for that :-/

I considered this a fancy feature and went for rigid "3, not more, not
less" ;), but I see the need for at least 4th, one more level, and
maybe the limitless way, who knows. Problem lies in INI files and the
need of fast-theme tool to know possible key names, I would have to
code a special case there.

Re: Fast-Syntax-Highlighting demo

[Daniel Shahaf]

Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote on Sat, 04 Aug 2018 19:01 +0300:
> also, I've just found that you've limited brackets highlighting by 3, 
> irrelevant to the count specified in current theme.
> 
> Although, "original" z-s-h,

For those not familiar with it, Vadim refers here to
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/, founded by
Julien in 2010.

(Disclosure: I'm involved in z-sy-h.)

> AFAIRC, doesn't limit it at all (see highlighters/
> brackets/brackets-highlighter.zsh) and have definitions for 5 levels by 
> default.