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| <h2>Simple Mode Demo</h2> |
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| <p>The <a href="../addon/mode/simple.js"><code>mode/simple</code></a> |
| addon allows CodeMirror modes to be specified using a relatively simple |
| declarative format. This format is not as powerful as writing code |
| directly against the <a href="../doc/manual.html#modeapi">mode |
| interface</a>, but is a lot easier to get started with, and |
| sufficiently expressive for many simple language modes.</p> |
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| <p>This interface is still in flux. It is unlikely to be scrapped or |
| overhauled completely, so do start writing code against it, but |
| details might change as it stabilizes, and you might have to tweak |
| your code when upgrading.</p> |
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| <p>Simple modes (loosely based on |
| the <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/skywriter/wiki/Common-JavaScript-Syntax-Highlighting-Specification">Common |
| JavaScript Syntax Highlighting Specification</a>, which never took |
| off), are state machines, where each state has a number of rules that |
| match tokens. A rule describes a type of token that may occur in the |
| current state, and possibly a transition to another state caused by |
| that token.</p> |
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| <p>The <code>CodeMirror.defineSimpleMode(name, states)</code> method |
| takes a mode name and an object that describes the mode's states. The |
| editor below shows an example of such a mode (and is itself |
| highlighted by the mode shown in it).</p> |
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| <p>Each state is an array of rules. A rule may have the following properties:</p> |
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| <dt><code><strong>regex</strong>: string | RegExp</code></dt> |
| <dd>The regular expression that matches the token. May be a string |
| or a regex object. When a regex, the <code>ignoreCase</code> flag |
| will be taken into account when matching the token. This regex |
| has to capture groups when the <code>token</code> property is |
| an array. If it captures groups, it must capture <em>all</em> of the string |
| (since JS provides no way to find out where a group matched). |
| Currently negative lookbehind assertion for regex is not supported, regardless of browser support.</dd> |
| <dt><code><strong>token</strong></code>: string | array<string> | null</dt> |
| <dd>An optional token style. Multiple styles can be specified by |
| separating them with dots or spaces. When this property holds an array of token styles, |
| the <code>regex</code> for this rule must capture a group for each array item. |
| </dd> |
| <dt><code><strong>sol</strong></code>: boolean</dt> |
| <dd>When true, this token will only match at the start of the line. |
| (The <code>^</code> regexp marker doesn't work as you'd expect in |
| this context because of limitations in JavaScript's RegExp |
| API.)</dd> |
| <dt><code><strong>next</strong>: string</code></dt> |
| <dd>When a <code>next</code> property is present, the mode will |
| transfer to the state named by the property when the token is |
| encountered.</dd> |
| <dt><code><strong>push</strong>: string</code></dt> |
| <dd>Like <code>next</code>, but instead replacing the current state |
| by the new state, the current state is kept on a stack, and can be |
| returned to with the <code>pop</code> directive.</dd> |
| <dt><code><strong>pop</strong>: bool</code></dt> |
| <dd>When true, and there is another state on the state stack, will |
| cause the mode to pop that state off the stack and transition to |
| it.</dd> |
| <dt><code><strong>mode</strong>: {spec, end, persistent}</code></dt> |
| <dd>Can be used to embed another mode inside a mode. When present, |
| must hold an object with a <code>spec</code> property that describes |
| the embedded mode, and an optional <code>end</code> end property |
| that specifies the regexp that will end the extent of the mode. When |
| a <code>persistent</code> property is set (and true), the nested |
| mode's state will be preserved between occurrences of the mode.</dd> |
| <dt><code><strong>indent</strong>: bool</code></dt> |
| <dd>When true, this token changes the indentation to be one unit |
| more than the current line's indentation.</dd> |
| <dt><code><strong>dedent</strong>: bool</code></dt> |
| <dd>When true, this token will pop one scope off the indentation |
| stack.</dd> |
| <dt><code><strong>dedentIfLineStart</strong>: bool</code></dt> |
| <dd>If a token has its <code>dedent</code> property set, it will, by |
| default, cause lines where it appears at the start to be dedented. |
| Set this property to false to prevent that behavior.</dd> |
| </dl> |
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| <p>The <code>meta</code> property of the states object is special, and |
| will not be interpreted as a state. Instead, properties set on it will |
| be set on the mode, which is useful for properties |
| like <a href="../doc/manual.html#addon_comment"><code>lineComment</code></a>, |
| which sets the comment style for a mode. The simple mode addon also |
| recognizes a few such properties:</p> |
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| <dl> |
| <dt><code><strong>dontIndentStates</strong>: array<string></code></dt> |
| <dd>An array of states in which the mode's auto-indentation should |
| not take effect. Usually used for multi-line comment and string |
| states.</dd> |
| </dl> |
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| <script id="modecode"> |
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| CodeMirror.defineSimpleMode("simplemode", { |
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| start: [ |
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| {regex: /"(?:[^\\]|\\.)*?(?:"|$)/, token: "string"}, |
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| {regex: /(function)(\s+)([a-z$][\w$]*)/, |
| token: ["keyword", null, "variable-2"]}, |
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| {regex: /(?:function|var|return|if|for|while|else|do|this)\b/, |
| token: "keyword"}, |
| {regex: /true|false|null|undefined/, token: "atom"}, |
| {regex: /0x[a-f\d]+|[-+]?(?:\.\d+|\d+\.?\d*)(?:e[-+]?\d+)?/i, |
| token: "number"}, |
| {regex: /\/\/.*/, token: "comment"}, |
| {regex: /\/(?:[^\\]|\\.)*?\//, token: "variable-3"}, |
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| {regex: /\/\*/, token: "comment", next: "comment"}, |
| {regex: /[-+\/*=<>!]+/, token: "operator"}, |
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| {regex: /[\{\[\(]/, indent: true}, |
| {regex: /[\}\]\)]/, dedent: true}, |
| {regex: /[a-z$][\w$]*/, token: "variable"}, |
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| {regex: /<</, token: "meta", mode: {spec: "xml", end: />>/}} |
| ], |
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| comment: [ |
| {regex: /.*?\*\//, token: "comment", next: "start"}, |
| {regex: /.*/, token: "comment"} |
| ], |
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| meta: { |
| dontIndentStates: ["comment"], |
| lineComment: "//" |
| } |
| }); |
| </script> |
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| <script> |
| var sc = document.getElementById("modecode"); |
| var code = document.getElementById("code"); |
| var editor = CodeMirror(code, { |
| value: (sc.textContent || sc.innerText || sc.innerHTML), |
| mode: "simplemode" |
| }); |
| </script> |
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