Languages

A language element defines how a text file is highlighted and edited. A language is selected by the extension of the filename or the first line of the content, but it can also be changed from the View > Language menu.

Attributes:

Name	Format	Description
patterns	pattern1 [; pattern2 ...]	The list of extension separated by a ';'. If this attribute is empty, and there is no 'first-line-patterns' attribute, this configuration is used as the default one.
first-line-patterns	pattern1 [; pattern2 ...]	The list of matching first lines separated by a ';'. Wildcards '*' are accepted.
encoding	default UTF-8 UTF-16-LE UTF-16-BE	If specified, the file is loaded with the specified encoding even if the file does not contain a BOM marker. A new file is also saved with this encoding.
layout	single tree hlist vlist	The layout to use when opening a file of this language.
tabulation-size	size	Size of tabulations.
fixed	true false	Use fixed font by default.
word-wrap	true false	Turns on the word wrapping.
word-wrap-max-width	width	The maximum width for word wrapping, in glyph units. The width is computed using the font for normal text, either fixed or proportional depending on the fixed property.
show-line-type	true false	Adds a special symbols in a margin to show sections.
elastic-tabstops	true false	Use elastic tabstops by default.
expand-tabulation	true false	A tabulation is replaced by whitespaces.
auto-indentation	true false	Turns on auto-indentation.
stylizer	batch css generic html makefile monochrome python ruby sh tex	The stylizer is the function that colorize and style the text.. Only the generic stylizer uses all the attributes described below.
line-comment	string	The beginning of a comment line. This attribute is used for folding as well as for colorization.
line-comment-2	string	The beginning of an alternative comment line. This attribute is used for colorization only.
open-comment	string	The beginning of a comment block. This attribute is used for folding as well as for colorization.
close-comment	string	The end of a comment block
open-comment-2	string	The beginning of an alternative comment block
close-comment-2	string	The end of an alternative comment block
preprocessor	string	The preprocessor characters (e.g. '#')
hexa-prefix	string	The hexadecimal prefix (e.g. '0x')
extra-id-chars	string	Additional identifier chars that can be used in keywords. By default the identifier chars are [_A-Za-z0-9]. These additional chars do not apply to the first character of an identifier.
string-delimiter	char	The delimiter character for strings
string-escape-char	char	The escape character inside strings
multiline-string-delimiter	char	The delimiter character for multiline strings
regex-escape-char	char	The escape character inside a regex (e.g. '\' in Ruby)
char-delimiter	char	The delimiter character for characters (or alternative strings)
char-escape-char	char	The escape character inside characters
multiline-char-delimiter	char	The delimiter character for multiline characters (or alternative strings)
char-prefix	char	The prefix character for chars (e.g. '$' in Smalltalk)
variable-prefix	char	The prefix character for a variable (e.g. '$' in php). It will highlight this character and the following word with the same color as for words-4
escape-char	char	The escape character
ignore-case	true false	'true' if keywords are not case sensitive
user1	string	First class of words
user2	string	Second class of words
user3	string	Third class of words
user4	string	Fourth class of words