ColdFusion (CFML) language support

[guest]

I'm currently setting up ReviewBoard? (which uses Pygments for it's diff view) and am running into issues when trying to view ColdFusion? code.

Any plans on adding that in the near future?

[thatch]

Could you provide an example file?

[guest]

In actual fact ColdFusion? code is very much like HTML... many of the original coldfusion commands are basically HTML like, e.g. <cfoutput></cfoutput> with some special characters like # being used to determine variables to be displayed (so for example:

<cfset myText = "This text"> <cfoutput>#myText#</cfoutput>

Lots of info and examples of ColdFusion? available here: http://www.learn-coldfusion-tutorial.com/

It also has it's own scripting language (which goes between <cfscript></cfscript> tags and is very much like javascript.

It uses three main file extensions, .cfm or .cfml and .cfc - in actual fact a combination of the existing HTML lexer, and the javascript lexer, with additional support for #thisvariable# highlighting would go a long way to solving the ColdFusion? one!

[thatch]

A *very* rough version is in the attachment. The keywords-allowed-as-tags were discovered experimentally. Remaining to do:

1. Integrate the full list of tags
2. Integrate the full list of functions (not as big a deal, anything with a paren will highlight as a function, just won't be marked as a builtin).
3. Fix the single quote with tag within parsing issue (see tests/examplefiles/evil.cfm).
4. Figure out whether any of the file extensions imply xml, or if they're all html.

[thatch]

Initial version in [472aac53fd04] in my branch, without the evil testfile. Most of my testing is done with the entire cfwheels repo, and the only things that didn't highlight are in evil.cfm in the attached diff.

A patch is welcome if anyone feels like integrating the full lists. I'm calling it good for now. Review welcome on the mimetypes or extensions, I'm not very familiar with coldfusion.

[guest]

Looks good to me... certainly better than black and white. :)

[guest]

Oh - if anyone does want to integrate the tags and functions would go with CF8 at least (version 7 was linked above). Version 9 is just out, though online docs not there right now.

ColdFusion 8 Tags

ColdFusion 8 Functions