On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 08:48:49AM -0500, Mark Burgess wrote:
>The syntax highlighting in the the docs now make this clear. Red words
>are CFEngine and blue words are user defined.
Would it be possible to publish the regexes uses for syntax
highlighting? (Yes, I understand that it will change over time).
I've been working on one for the GeSHi syntax highlighter, which
admittedly has some oddities to it, and I'll try to make the styles
match.
>On 12/16/2011 12:27 PM, Erlend Leganger wrote:
>> And here is another thing I'd like to see: When learning cf3, I always
>> had problems figuring out which names were part of the language and
>> which were user defined. For example, my previous example read:
>> ...
>> depth_search => recurse,
>> ...
>> body depth_search recurse {
>> depth => "inf";
>> }
>>
>> I always had to think twice about terms like "recurse" - is it a part
>> of the language or not? This is easy to fix (and I have done this
>> across all my cf3 code) - just prefix every non-cf3 term with
>> something that is clearly not part of the language. In my case I use a
>> company specific string, for example "xyz_recurse". Another approach
>> is use use for example "my_recurse" - also very clearly not part of
>> cf3.
>>
>> Here's an existing example from the tutorial[1]:
>> ...
>> perms => m("600"),
>> copy_from => remote_cp("$(master_location)","localhost"),
>> depth_search => recurse("inf"),
>> action => immediate;
>> ...
>>
>> For the beginner (and myself...), the following is easier to read:
>> ...
>> perms => my_mode("600"),
>> copy_from => my_remote_cp("$(master_location)","localhost"),
>> depth_search => my_recurse("inf"),
>> action => immediate;
>> ...
>> This would also be nice to have for the common body library, meaning
>> that each body or bundle for example had a copbl_ prefix:
>>
>> - body acl copbl_access_generic
>> - body acl copbl_ntfs
>> - body acl copbl_strict
>> - body action copbl_bg
>> - body action copbl_if_elapsed
>> - body action copbl_ifwin_bg
>> ...
>>
>> - Erlend
>>
>>
>> [1]: http://cfengine.com/manuals/cf3-tutorial.html#Remote-file-distribution
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