https://github.com/pgmtx/lite-plugin-vale

A Lite and Lite-XL plugin providing syntax highlighting for the Vale programming language.
https://github.com/pgmtx/lite-plugin-vale

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A Lite and Lite-XL plugin providing syntax highlighting for the Vale programming language.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pgmtx/lite-plugin-vale
• Owner: pgmtx
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-03-04T09:06:30.000Z (9 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-04T11:59:22.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-17T21:59:31.187Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: editor, lite, lua, plugin
• Language: Lua
• Homepage:
• Size: 83 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# lite-plugin-vale

A Lite and Lite-XL plugin providing syntax highlighting for the [Vale](https://vale.dev/) programming language.

![Screenshot of vale file showing syntax highlighting](example.png)

*This piece of code comes from Vale's [arrays implementation](https://github.com/ValeLang/Vale/blob/master/stdlib/src/arrays/arrays.vale).*

## Installation

Simply add the [language_vale.lua](language_vale.lua) file to the `plugins` directory (on Linux it is `~/.config/lite-xl/plugins`) and restart the editor.

## Why I made this

I wanted to try out Vale, but the VSCode extension was outdated (it was old keywords). 

Also, I was looking for another code editor, and found Lite-XL.

Aside from finding correct Lua patterns (which differs a bit from regex), coding a plugin for this editor is simple and accessible.

## Helpful websites

- Lite-XL [tutorial](https://lite-xl.com/en/tutorials/syntax-highlighting) for syntax highlighting.

- [Lua patterns](https://gitspartv.github.io/lua-patterns/) to check what you pattern does and look for errors.