Swift Next

Swift syntax package in async/await era

Features

• Swift 5.6 support
  • Older Swift versions (deprecated or retired syntax) are not supported, and not in plan.
• Supports Documentation Comment Syntax
• Supports MARK: TODO: FIXME:
• Xcode-style Symbol List
• Ships with all the Swift snippets from Xcode tuned for Sublime Text
• Compatible with the new regex engine of Sublime Text

Status

• Finish visual test against all the swift files in apple/swift repository
  • swift-5.6-RELEASE/benchmark
  • swift-5.6-RELEASE/libswift
• Resolve TODOs left in files
• Squash corner cases that scope goes wrong
• Remove commented matches left for debugging purpose
• Add tests
• Add build system (if cross-platform is possible?)
• Support swift-5.7-RELEASE
• Better documentation markup support

Install

1. Download this repository
2. Move extracted directory into: Sublime Text → Preferences → Browse Packages... → "User" directory

Development

Editing Environment

• Sublime Text 4
• PackageDev
• SublimeLinter-contrib-sublime-syntax
• LSP-yaml
• LSP-json
• Formatted with LSP-yaml and LSP-json

Tips

Minimize multiple words into a regex pattern

$ grex --no-anchors --capture-groups ...

References

If you are to create a syntax definition file for the first time without deep regex background like me, here's everything you need.

Sublime Text

• Sublime Text — Syntax Definitions
• Sublime Text — Scope Naming
• Sublime Text Community Documentation
• sublimehq/Packages
• sublimehq/Packages — Syntax Development Tips/Advice #757

Regular Expression

• regex101
• Oniguruma syntax (operator) configuration

Swift

• apple/swift
• The Swift Programming Language
• Swift Standard Library
• .swiftinterface files in: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/lib/swift
• DougGregor/swift-concurrency-objc
• textmate/swift.tmbundle
• wbond/swift-for-sublime (floating-point-literal and string-literal are modified version of this package 🙏)
• GregoryBL/SwiftSyntax

Other Fundamental Packages for Swift

• LSP-SourceKit
• Swift Format

License

• MIT