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**Dream** · February 28, 2017, 2:14pm

Hello everybody,

I am trying to understand and create a Syntax Definition for SAMCEF code. But until now I failed, so I am asking for your help.
I would like to adapt the following Notepad++ Syntax (udl xml) to Sublime text. I am sure it is simple but I cannot figure it out…

<NotepadPlus> <UserLang name="SAMCEF" ext="dat" udlVersion="2.1"> <Settings> <Global caseIgnored="no" allowFoldOfComments="no" foldCompact="yes" forcePureLC="0" decimalSeparator="0" /> <Prefix Keywords1="yes" Keywords2="yes" Keywords3="no" Keywords4="yes" Keywords5="yes" Keywords6="no" Keywords7="yes" Keywords8="no" /> </Settings> <KeywordLists> <Keywords name="Comments">00! 01 02 03 04</Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, prefix1"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, prefix2"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, extras1"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, extras2"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, suffix1">.</Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, suffix2"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, range">E</Keywords> <Keywords name="Operators1">+ - : *</Keywords> <Keywords name="Operators2"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code1, open"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code1, middle"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code1, close"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code2, open"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code2, middle"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code2, close"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in comment, open">#IF</Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in comment, middle">#ELSEIF #ELSE THEN</Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in comment, close">#ENDIF</Keywords> <Keywords name="Keywords1">.NOE
.MAI
.UNI
.STOP
.MAT
.FRAM
.3POI
.FCT
.PURGE
.PHP
.HYP
.AEL
.SEL
.PEAU
.AXL
.CLM
.LIA
.MCC
.MCE
.DES
.MCT
.GEL
.SAI
.SUB
.CLT
.APS
.RBE
.STI
.BOLT
.MNT
.ALGO
.SAM
.OPT
.LOOP1</Keywords> <Keywords name="Keywords2">NOM
GROUP
THEN
TYPE 
CART
ORI
GRO
COM
BOITE
STRU
NOE
UNION
IDEN
MAI
TRAN
FACE
MOINS
GTAR
CREE
THIC
NEXCE
MAT
DEGRE
VOLU
TOUT
PURGE
COUPLE
BLOC
XIT
VON
CAUCHY
VAL
ABS
ORDO
MAP
ATT
IMPOSE
ARCH
STYP
NDIST
MACRO
ELEM
PART
CHA
PRES
TFX
DEP
FIX</Keywords> <Keywords name="Keywords3">OR
AND
GT
LT
NE
EQ
GE
LE
V1
V2
V3
A
I
J
K
M
YT
NT
MM
X
Y
Z
NLIM
CF
CFNF
RMAX
U
KSMO
XI
XS
YI
YS
ZI
ZS
OPT
N
NF
V
MECA
REAC
CIBLE
IPRO
RESO
LINK
PRCR
PRCE
IA16
IA4
IA19
HMIN
HMAX
DTI0
ITMA
ILNS
PAS
UN3
UN2
UN1
PEAU
METH
L1
NOP1
NOP2
NOP3
NOP4
NOP5
NOP6
MF
METHODE
IRELIEF
IMPRI
CYLIND
RAYONS
ANGLES</Keywords> <Keywords name="Keywords4">/</Keywords> <Keywords name="Keywords5">INPUT
APPEND
RETURN
CLOSE
NAME</Keywords> <Keywords name="Keywords6">ECHO
SUPPR
MEAN
FRAME
FRE1
CONT
SPR1
MAPP

</Keywords> <Keywords name="Keywords7">.DEL.*
#INQ
EXIT

</Keywords> <Keywords name="Keywords8">GRAP INIT
MODE PREC
MODE LECT
MODE ERR
ABRE
TIME
TEMP
$
EVAL
NC</Keywords> <Keywords name="Delimiters">00( 01 02) 03" 04 05" 06'' 07 08' 09[ 10 11] 12' 13 14' 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23</Keywords> </KeywordLists> <Styles> <WordsStyle name="DEFAULT" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="COMMENTS" fgColor="008000" bgColor="C0C0C0" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="LINE COMMENTS" fgColor="28641A" bgColor="C0C0C0" fontName="" fontStyle="1" nesting="65536" /> <WordsStyle name="NUMBERS" fgColor="0000FF" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="2" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS1" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="5" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS2" fgColor="800000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS3" fgColor="EA7500" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS4" fgColor="0000A0" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS5" fgColor="8000FF" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS6" fgColor="008080" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS7" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS8" fgColor="FF00FF" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="OPERATORS" fgColor="008000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="FOLDER IN CODE1" fgColor="0000A0" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="FOLDER IN CODE2" fgColor="FF00FF" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="FOLDER IN COMMENT" fgColor="400080" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="7" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS1" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" nesting="117699839" /> <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS2" fgColor="008000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="17036543" /> <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS3" fgColor="FF8040" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="117701887" /> <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS4" fgColor="FF0080" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="117701887" /> <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS5" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="4" nesting="117702655" /> <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS6" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS7" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" /> <WordsStyle name="DELIMITERS8" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" /> </Styles> </UserLang> </NotepadPlus>

**Dream** · February 28, 2017, 5:59pm

nobody has an idea?

**rppn** · March 1, 2017, 8:19am

Before people do it for you, what did you try so far?

**kingkeith** · March 1, 2017, 8:45am

read http://udl20.weebly.com/introduction.html and http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/syntax.html and you’ll see that UDL 2.0 XML, as used by Notepad++, is context-less and based purely on detecting “keywords”, either with word boundaries / white space surrounding them or without. So if you want to emulate it, you can just create a simple .sublime-syntax file with some long regexes with lots of alternations and assign the appropriate keyword, constant.numeric or comment scopes

**Dream** · March 1, 2017, 9:14am

Yes, defining detection, without context would be enough for this language.
Samcef is a finite element code, which does not present sentences, loops, or complex structures.
An example:
> .MCT GROUP “BLABLA” GTAR “BLABLA2” OPT 2 OPCO 2 OPFR 2 KSMO 1
> .NOE I 29990001 X -1063.5 Y 0 Z 0 ! commment
> .NOE I 29990002 X -1063.5 Y 25.182 Z 557.47
> I 29990003 X -1063.5 Y 72.003 Z 553.37
> .AXL I 29990002 J 29990003 FRAME 20000001
To detect in the example: functions (starting with .), integer, float, text (delimited by " "), option (list of keyword), comment (!)

I do not whish to learn the YAML structure or all the complexity of the context detection. But I cannot find simple example of different keyword detection, all examples are directly too complex for my understanding.

**kingkeith** · March 1, 2017, 9:24am

here’s a simple example to get you started:

%YAML 1.2
---
# See http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/syntax.html
scope: source.samcef
contexts:
  main:
    # Functions begin with .
    - match: \.[A-Z]+
      scope: variable.function.samcef

    # Strings begin and end with quotes
    - match: (")[^"]*(")
      scope: string.quoted.double.samcef
      captures:
        1: punctuation.definition.string.begin.samcef
        2: punctuation.definition.string.end.samcef

    # Comments begin with an exclamation mark and finish at the end of the line
    - match: \!
      scope: punctuation.definition.comment.samcef
      push: line_comment

    # Numbers
    - match: '\b(-)?[0-9.]+\b'
      scope: constant.numeric.samcef

    # keywords are everything else
    - match: '\b([A-Z]+)\b'
      scope: keyword.samcef

  line_comment:
    - meta_scope: comment.line.samcef
    - match: $
      pop: true

**Dream** · March 1, 2017, 9:29am

thx a lot, I swear I started to read http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/syntax.html
but as English not my first language, I couldn’t understand all…

**Dream** · March 1, 2017, 9:47am

Hello again.
I cannot find where to put this .sublime-syntax file, or how to install it via menu.
And I hope my last question, how do I associate .dat file with this syntax?

**kingkeith** · March 1, 2017, 9:53am

add the following above the scope: line

file_extensions:
  - dat

Preferences menu -> Browse Packages -> User folder

**Dream** · March 1, 2017, 10:00am

Thank you KING!

**Dream** · March 17, 2017, 11:54am

Hello again to all,

I do not manage to use the shortcut Ctrl+/ for commenting line with this Syntax.
Do I have to specify in some other way that ‘!’ define a comment?

# Comments begin with an exclamation mark and finish at the end of the line
- match: \!
  scope: punctuation.definition.comment.samcef
  push: line_comment

line_comment:
- meta_scope: comment.line.samcef
- match: $
pop: true

**kingkeith** · March 17, 2017, 12:18pm

Yes you do need to specify somewhere else that ! begins a comment - you can follow the advice/instructions here

**Dream** · March 17, 2017, 12:51pm

Perfect.
For the record I did:

create the file Miscellaneous.tmPreferences in SublimeTextPortable\App\64-bit\Data\Packages\User
containing:


 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>name</key>
	<string>Miscellaneous</string>
	<key>scope</key>
	<string>source.samcef</string>
	<key>settings</key>
	<dict>
		<key>shellVariables</key>
		<array>
			<dict>
				<key>name</key>
				<string>TM_COMMENT_START</string>
				<key>value</key>
				<string>! </string>
			</dict>
		</array>
	</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Desperatly need help to create a Syntax Definition for SAMCEF code