Bad syntax highlighting of .lidr files

[nicolabotta]

Syntax highlighting works fine on .idr files but on .lidr files (Bird style), I get something like this:

Is there a way to get the same highlighting on .idr files and .lidr files? Thanks + cheers, Nicola

[david-christiansen]

This used to work! I suspect a bug in Idris itself, where it's likely sending the source locations after post processing to get rid of the tracks. I'm away from the computer on parental leave, but if someone wants to work on this, check the highlight commands being sent by Idris.

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On Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 06:43 nicolabotta ***@***.***> wrote: Syntax highlighting works fine on .idr files but on .lidr files (Bird style), I get something like this: [image: Screenshot_2019-12-29_15-31-02] <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2726946/71558235-1918e180-2a51-11ea-8ec2-35e321f1b3c1.png> Is there a way to get the same highlighting on .idr files and .lidr files? Thanks + cheers, Nicola — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#506?email_source=notifications&email_token=AAA4FAQIQ3KTP7PCVTHA36LQ3CZSDA5CNFSM4KA5MGXKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFUVEXG43VMWVGG33NNVSW45C7NFSM4IDEA7LQ>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAA4FAUO7MBMQEU3T4MQRT3Q3CZSDANCNFSM4KA5MGXA> .

[nicolabotta]

Thanks David, I have opened idris-lang/Idris-dev#4799 (comment). Best, Nicola

[nicolabotta]

As reported in idris-lang/Idris-dev#4799 (comment), there seem to be two problems in the current idris-mode.

For syntax highlighting to work as expected for .lidr files, the function

(defun idris-highlight-column (idris-col)
  "Compute the Emacs position offset of the Idris column IDRIS-COL, for highlighting.                                     
                                                                                                                          
In particular, this takes bird tracks into account in literate Idris."
  (+ idris-col (if (idris-lidr-p) 1 -1)))

had to be modified as suggested by andrewmcveigh in #480 as

(defun idris-highlight-column (idris-col)
  "Compute the Emacs position offset of the Idris column IDRIS-COL, for highlighting.                                     
                                                                                                                          
In particular, this takes bird tracks into account in literate Idris."
  (+ idris-col (if (idris-lidr-p) -1 -1)))

and loaded. The second problem is that the file that defines idris-highlight-column, idris-highlight-input.el, is not loaded when idris-mode is started. Thus, just modifying the function has no effect when idris-mode is loaded in a fresh emacs instance. One has to manually load idris-highlight-input.el for syntax highlighting to work as expected. Cheers, Nicola