Idea: Improve Syntax Highlighting about lf-lang.github.io HOT 5 CLOSED

...using a URL like this one: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/extensions/cpp/syntaxes/cpp.tmLanguage.json

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Couldn't we just wget or curl those files?

Oh, I like that idea -- thanks! The way I can imagine implementing that would be to just get the text in the highlighting script, without needing to save anything to files. I'll go ahead and try to do that.

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One way to do this is to include vscode as a submodule, and to reach into that repo for the desired tmlanguage.json file. The problem is that a deep clone of the whole repo and its history consumes 496 MiB!

We could find ways to manage that. For example, we could try to do only shallow clones, or we could keep the thing around and just tolerate it. We could also just copy-paste the tmlanguage.json files that we need, and update them manually as their maintainers work on them. As long as we can somehow track copies of those files, it shouldn't be a problem to highlight any code we want, including bash scripts.

I'm open to any opinions...

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We could also just copy-paste the tmlanguage.json files that we need

Would it be possible to factor out the tmlanguage.json file to a third repository and have that as a submodule in the vscode and website repos?

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If I understand correctly, the respective tmlanguage.json files are part of the vscoderepository (not vscode-lingua-franca). Couldn't we just wget or curl those files?

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