Feature Vision Discussion: Syntax Highlighting

[sholderbach]

This issue is part of the larger vision discussion managed in #63 to brainstorm and prioritize ideas around features that would make reedline as a line editor for you both viable as well as pleasant to use. Feel free to up-vote features you depend on in other tools/shells as well as suggest new ideas!

Syntax Highlighting Features

• [ ] Ability to define word-types to highlight as you type and continue coloring even in failure modes
  • [ ] Keywords
  • [ ] Commands
  • [x] External Commands
  • [ ] Bareword
  • [ ] Punctuation
  • [ ] Sub-Commands
  • [ ] Braces {}, Brackets [], Parentheses ()
  • [ ] Error modes
  • [ ] Operators
  • [ ] Paths
  • [ ] Pipe
  • [ ] Arguments/Flags
  • [ ] Variables
  • [ ] Comments
  • [ ] DataTypes (strings, int, datetime, duration, bool, units, etc)
  • [ ] Other
• [x] Ability to have add things you want syntax highlighted through extensibility

[fdncred]

Current voting

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• :+1: Ability to define word-types to highlight as you type (see above)
• :-1: Ability to have add things you want syntax highlighted through extensibility

[mzanrosso]

External command highlight done 👍