Some questions about highlighting tags

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I didn’t feel like these questions/requests/nitpicks deserve to be individual Github issues, so I’ll ask them here:

  1. Are highlighting tags that are ‘children’ of other tags supposed to cascade their styles?
    I ask this because if you were to style t.content, afaik that rule will not style t.emphasis unless there is no style given for t.emphasis. I feel conflicted about this behavior, but at the same time I also like the ability to give specificity within a theme.

  2. In the Markdown grammar, shouldn’t all plain text be given the t.content tag? Currently, this doesn’t appear to be the case. Perhaps a “default scope” could be provided for a grammar?

  3. More of a request: Maybe there should be a specific highlighting tag for HTML/XML node tags? This is seen in quite a few other editors, and I personally prefer having a separate color for “types” (like in TS) and “tags” (like in HTML or generic markup).

2

No, the most specific one is picked.

Maybe. Probably. But I’ll have to change the parser to support this.

3

Would a subtype of typeName work for you? I kind of want to keep the amount of tags that a highlighter has to style to get reasonable highlighting to a minimum.

4

That feels reasonable to me. In-fact, that solution feels like the ‘correct’ one, because tags are ‘types’, just a ‘different’ kind of type.