MagicStack: Python syntax highlighter for Sublime Text and Atom

Re:MagicStack: Python syntax highlighter for Sublime Text an... by peterhadlaw on Monday October 19, 2015 @06:39PM (#10416292)

Intermediate emacs user here. I really like the way Atom highlights Python code. With this I see it being even better. A question for the author: does this expand upon the capabilities of the editor or just provide a route for quicker updates that eventually could be mainlined?

I've been thinking about scratching the itch to expand emacs Python highlighting to match that of Atom. From the looks of it, the code highlighting was primarily regex based, and the same from my cursory observations looking at emacs Python-mode syntax highlighting mechanisms. Could I incorporate this somehow into emacs from what I've said here so far?

Also, thanks for helping out the community!

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Re:MagicStack: Python syntax highlighter for Sublime Text an... by 1st1 on Monday October 19, 2015 @06:45PM (#10416318)

> [...] A question for the author: does this expand upon the capabilities of the editor [...]

MagicPython is a completely new implementation, written from scratch. The ultimate goal would be to integrate it into Atom and Sublime Text by default (here's an issue I created for Atom for example [1])

> Could I incorporate this somehow into emacs from what I've said here so far?

I'm not an emacs user myself, so I'm not sure. You can probably re-use some of the regexp tricks, and definitely our unit-tests.

[1] https://github.com/atom/language-python/issues/109

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