Tracking bug for supporting custom coding styles

[grssam]

Custom coding styles should be supported, may be using some standard formats, or providing multiple options regarding various parts / aspects of coding.

[Drugoy]

I suppose, you have to invent some kind of internal syntax first. This will also be useful for fixing parser-related issues.

You have to analyze parts of the style first just to know what you work with:

/* - start of the commentary
*/ - end of the commentary
{ - start of the rule block
} - end of the rule block
; - the symbol that divides sub-rules. May be omitted for the last sub-rule.

%caret%

- symbolizes the caret.

%space%

- symbolizes a single space character.

%tab%

- symbolizes a 4 space characters.

%namespace%

- symbolizes namespace rules.

%selector%

- a single selector or multiple ones.

%rule%

- a block inside "{" and "}".

%property%

- a single property.

%value%

- a single value or a group of ones.

%importance%

- represents the importance of a sub-rule, may take one of 2 possible states: "!important" or none.

%imp_0%

- "importance level 0", absence of the "!important;" after a value.

%imp_1%

- "importance level 3", presence of "!important;" after a value.

%subrule%

- one sub-rule, a set of "%property%:%value%%importance%

%first_subrule%

- the first sub-rule in a %rule% block.

%last_subrule%

- the last sub-rule in a %rule% block.

[grssam]

the 4 levels of importance can be just clubbed into 2, one with !important and other without.

having ; or not is a syntax issue, and ; should always be present, unless its the last line of a block.

Actually, as CSS Beautifier is already present in the code, and available, one time formatting wil lbe taken care by it. I will have to explore the customizations it can provide.

For live syntax validatoins, I can only provide a low level check, as it might become cpu consuming after certain limit of code.

[Drugoy]

the 4 levels of importance can be just clubbed into 2, one with !important and other without.

Agreed, updated.