Syntax highlighting in editors

[danjessen]

Hi

Been working with Smarty for almost 12 years now. Somehow syntax highlighting has always been a problem. Recently when working with neovim and tree-sitter.

Is there any recommended and updated way to get syntax highlighting across all editors, or just some of the big ones? Like vscode, neovim, jetbrains. Maybe using tree-sitter or some other tool.

It's kinda frustrating there is no official syntax support.

VSCode requires a plugin, like:

• https://github.com/aswinkumar863/smarty-vscode-support
  • Syntax updated 4 years ago

Jetbrains requires a plugin, or PHPstorm

• https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6610-php
  • Syntax maintained by Jetbrains

Neovim built in

• https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/a9031cc4a649f6ad5ef3db29a9bf52468332bcde/runtime/syntax/smarty.vim#L2
  • Syntax update 22 years ago

Tree-sitter (general highlighting support)

• https://github.com/Kibadda/tree-sitter-smarty
  • Recently updated, but not 100% compatible

[wisskid]

I guess you could offer to help the authors of the editors/plugins you mentioned to implemented the required changes?

[shadowwa]

I've also had the same problem last year and ended up updating dbestevez version https://github.com/shadowwa/smarty.vim

[marclaporte]

Seems it would be nice to track these in a wiki page: https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/wiki

[danjessen]

Seems it would be nice to track these in a wiki page: https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/wiki

Either that or the documentation.

[danjessen]

I guess you could offer to help the authors of the editors/plugins you mentioned to implemented the required changes?

I have been, sadly my time outside work has been limited.

Kibadda/tree-sitter-smarty#2

So here I am, trying to create some attention around the issue.

[danjessen]

I've also had the same problem last year and ended up updating dbestevez version https://github.com/shadowwa/smarty.vim

Looks great. I will look into it. I made my own version of the smarty syntax, but it is maybe a bit opinionated towards my needs.