Using d.tmbundle with IntelliJ IDEA

[andre2007]

Just released version of IntelliJ IDEA (Community 2019.2) has support for TextMate bundles.

I am not 100% what is the expected syntax highlighting result but assumes there are some issues. E.g.

Are the issues related to IntelliJ and I should create a ticket for them or are the issues related to this repository?

[jacob-carlborg]

I don’t have access to a computer right now, but I’m pretty sure it looks a lot better in TextMate.

[andre2007]

Issue created for IntelliJ IDEA
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-219012

[jacob-carlborg]

If you don’t have access to TextMate you can look at how GitHub highlights D code. It also uses this bundle.

[andre2007]

@jacob-carlborg
I do not know whether you have access to the IntelliJ issue. Here is the latest answer for my question whether Named Captures can be added to IntelliJ:

...as far as I know the library we use (https://github.com/jruby/joni) doesn't support retrieving named groups. Also supporting named captures will increase memory footprint on our side. Additionally there is the native support of D: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8115-d-language. Considering this, it doesn't look sensible to me to support it right now.

For me, having a textmate bundle makes sense for supporting rare language and for supporting it in as many editors as possible. From what I see, highlighting in Atom (https://github.com/atom/node-oniguruma/blob/master/src/onig-scanner.cc#L114) and VSCode (https://github.com/NeekSandhu/onigasm/blob/master/src/OnigScanner.ts#L24) also don't support named captures. So if you really want your bundle to be supported by the many editors, I'd avoid using named captures.