Hi all, first posting, just bought ST2.

I’m having an issue with the markdown .tmLanguage file. It seems to only match the first layer of lists when recognizing when punctuation is “list” punctuation. I ran into this when trying to write a new color scheme for markdown.

• I’m matched! My astersk is colored!

• My asterisk is not!

Just wondering if someone knew a fix for the issue, as I couldn’t puzzle out the intricacies of the .tmLanguage file .

Note: If you need a .tmTheme file to test the issue with, you can use the one I’m working on: http://github.com/rickhutcheson/Stormy

Thanks,
Rick

Hi Rick,

As you indicate, the issue is with the .tmLanguage file not your theme.

In the example you give, the first bullet is defined as:

punctuation.definition.list_item.markdown markup.list.unnumbered.markdown text.html.markdown 

But the rest of the list is entirely defined as:

meta.paragraph.list.markdown markup.list.unnumbered.markdown text.html.markdown 

( You can use the following plugin to identify the scopes in your files: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1646&p=7545&hilit=scope+clipboard#p7545 )

That’s why you can color the first bullet, but not the others.

The situation at present is that Markdown.tmLanguage stinks. Unfortunately I don’t have sufficient regexp-fu to improve the syntax file — to say nothing of properly supporting more sophisticated syntaxes, like Pandoc.

Any volunteers?

Alex