Syntax highlighting for eshell scripts?

Syntax highlighting for eshell scripts?

[the_wurfkreuz]

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Considering new recent additions to eshell syntax and the ability to run eshell scripts using the batch mode, maybe it makes sense to introduce some sort of a highlighting mode for writing eshell as a scripting language?

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Re: Syntax highlighting for eshell scripts?

[Jim Porter]

On 8/24/2024 11:46 PM, the_wurfkreuz wrote:
> Considering new recent additions to eshell syntax and the ability to run 
> eshell scripts using the batch mode, maybe it makes sense to introduce 
> some sort of a highlighting mode for writing eshell as a scripting language?

Yeah, this would be a nice feature (bonus if it fontifies the command 
entered at an interpreter prompt too). I wonder if it would be feasible 
to use the existing Eshell parser to help with fontification too; unlike 
a lot of other major modes, Eshell already has a full parser for its 
language in Emacs.

That might necessitate a big refactor of the Eshell parser (so that it 
more cleanly splits out parsing and codegen), but that could also be 
useful for improving some of the annoying corner cases in the existing 
grammar.