Adding support for a new language

[benlubas]

I'd like to add language support for q. Specifically, I'd to make quarto aware of the q comment string, which is /.

Searching around I found this list of files that all contain maps from language name to comment char.

src/resources/editor/tools/yaml/yaml-intelligence-resources.json
src/resources/editor/tools/vs-code.mjs (in two places)
src/resources/editor/tools/yaml/web-worker.js (in two places)
src/resources/jupyter/notebook.py
src/resources/filters/modules/constants.lua
src/resources/rmd/hooks.R
src/core/jupyter/jupyter.ts
src/core/lib/partition-cell-options.ts

Cross checking with d256be7, I have all the same + one more.

I just grepped for julia.?[:=].*# and changed the lang/comment a few times. If someone has a better method or if this is documented anywhere, lmk.

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I'm also curious about what it would take to get q syntax highlights in generated HTML out of the box. Currently I'm able to use Kate's k and q syntax definitions (from here) with some small changes, and use the syntax-definitions metadata. Is this something that I'd need to add to quarto? or some tool that quarto uses like pandoc?

Thanks!

[cscheid]

I think you've found all the right places, except that some of those are automatically generated (src/resources/editor/tools/*)

• Syntax Highlighting: To get syntax highlighting for code cells in Quarto is indeed provided by Pandoc. You can either issue a PR against Pandoc to add a new default behavior, or your documents can include a theme, as we describe here: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-code.html#highlighting.
• Comment Syntax: In order to get support for yaml configuration in code cells and comments, you will need to make a PR against Quarto, making the changes in the spots you've found. If you want to draft a PR and tag me, I'll be happy to review it for you.