Patchfile naming guidelines (was: Re: [31766] trunk/dports/audio/libao)

[Boyd Waters]

On Dec 11, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> To the best of my knowledge, Mac OS X cannot assign a file to an  
> application based on a filename prefix. It can only do so based on a  
> filename extension.
>
>> And for viewing them: How do you highlight diff files?
>
> Currently, TextWrangler uses no syntax highlighting on diff files.  
> This is better than the incorrect syntax highlighting that could  
> result by trying to highlight based on the rules of the diffed file.  
> There is such a thing as a multiline comment, or a multiline string.  
> It's possible a diff might include either the opening or closing  
> quote or comment mark, but not the other one, which would result in  
> chaotic highlighting. I have seen this before.
>
> In the future, I might write my own syntax highlighting rules for  
> diff files which could, for example, color lines beginning with a +  
> or - in green and red, respectively, similar to what we see in the  
> Trac repository browser or the commit mails.


FWIW...

TextMate does highlighting of diff files if the file is named '*.diff'  
or if you explicitly select diff as the mode.

It does not attempt to do _syntax_ highlighting _within_ a diff -- so  
no C or Perl or whatever syntax highlighting.



   - boyd


Boyd Waters
Scientific Programmer
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Socorro, New Mexico