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Gemtext Highlighting For The Tilde Editor
The text editor I prefer (after spending so many years in the MS Windows environment) is Tilde.
The Tilde Text Editor (https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/)
It does not ship with a language file for Gemtext, so I put one together. The following two files should be placed in ~/.local/share/libt3highlight/:
The Gemtext language file: gemtext.lang.
format = 1 # Tilde highlighter definitions for Gemtext # See gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/gemtext.gmi or # https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/gemtext.gmi for a description # of the file format. # Headings %highlight { start = "^#" end = "$" style = "misc" } # Block-quote %highlight { start = "^>" end = "$" style = "comment-keyword" } # List %highlight { start = "^\* " end = "$" style = "keyword" } # Link line %highlight { start = "^=>" end = "$" style = "variable" } # Preformatted text %highlight { start = "^```" end = "^```" style = "comment" }
The lang.map file, which associates the gemtext highlighter with *.gmi
files.
format = 1 %lang { name = "Gemtext" file-regex = "\.gmi$" lang-file = "gemtext.lang" }
That's all it takes. I have a couple of machines that won't run Tilde, so my fallback editor there is Micro. Its default syntax highlighting for Gemtext is acceptable, but could be fine-tuned by building a YAML file in ~/.config/micro/syntax.
micro - a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor (https://micro-editor.github.io)
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