Andrew Johnson

> "if there is a languages directory, read all YAML files in it, otherwise, read the languages.yaml". Can I suggest "First read the languages.yaml file, then read all the .yaml...

@eteran asked: > Would it make sense for it to read the `languages.yaml` file first, and then, as it is reading the languages in `languages/*.yaml`, if a language there has...

Just asking to make sure you remember to sort the list before loading it! Of course if you're also going to monitor the directory for new or updated files and...

> I too thought about adding the filename suffix to the language mode to id the source yaml I'm not sure how well that would work, I have some prefix...

Language modes are useful for other text file formats too: - INI files - YAML - JSON - Markdown (multiple flavors, hopefully many of them can be combined into one...

So `nedit-ng` and the `nedit-import` tool currently generate separate `patterns.yaml` and `languages.yaml` files. There's also the separate `indent.yaml` file which holds the smart indent macros in it for each language,...

I would be reluctant myself to delete old config files when upgrading them in case the user shares their home directory between different systems over NFS, and doesn't upgrade the...

> I wonder if the config files could be versioned. I considered suggesting that but wasn't sure if/how it might help. Another idea I thought about was to somehow mark...

> 4, as is per unix standard @sjtringali [The Posix standard width](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/expand.html) for hard tabs is 8 spaces, not 4: > **-t** _tablist_ > Specify the tab stops. The application...

Any chance you could add a check-box to the Preferences :: Save Defaults dialog for "Don't show this again" at the same time as adding this menu? I'd rather not...