LSL syntax highlighting in Sublime Text 2

[Duckie Dickins]

I'm a pretty avid scripter, having worked for quite awhile developing in the combat meter field and I have always been on the look out for a good editor. I have tried several editors and had always ended up falling back to LSLEditor.

I got involved using sublime text 2 for work projects. It's a rather powerful editor you can do pretty much anything with and if a feature isn't available, you can pretty much code it yourself into the editor as a plugin. Well I came to discover someone ported LSL syntax highlighting from the Textmate LSL bundle and now Sublime Text is yet another alternative LSL scripting editor which can be used.

You can find out more about Sublime Text 2 here: http://www.sublimetext.com

And how to install the add-on for LSL syntax highlighting can be found here https://github.com/JKolya/sublime-text-2-lsl

I have no vested interest in sublime text. I'm just a fan, and now I'm an even bigger fan with LSL syntax highlighting.

[Innula Zenovka]

Thanks, it is pretty cool.   Is there a way to get it to format code like LSL editor does?

ETA -- found it.  Preferences-Settings-Default   and then find "indent_to_bracket" and set it to true.

[Duckie Dickins]

In the screen capture, I'm using a custom font which I read about here:

http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/

They showcase several nice fonts for programming. I use a Proggy font called Pixel Carnage which has more white space between characters to help with readability. I also bolded the text. You can set up your own font settings under Preferences -> Settings - User and format your code like this.

{
    "font_face": "PixelCarnage",
    "font_options":
    [
        "bold"
    ],
    "font_size": 12.0
}

If you need to add additional settings, just be sure to add a comma after the font_size line like the prior settings above it have.

Placing settings in Settings - User ensures your customizations don't get overwritten when  updating to a newer version

And of course you need to first download a custom font and toss into your C:\Windows\Font  folder first.

Also this is a pretty good article about getting started with Sublime Text

http://www.rockettheme.com/magazine/dec-2011/1319-using-sublime-text-2-for-development

[Duckie Dickins]

Just a heads up. Since I started using this, I went ahead and pushed an update to the upstream git repository for LSL syntax highlighting so now it has all of the missing LSL events, functions and constants that were not recognized before.

Happy Coding!

[Innula Zenovka]

Thanks.   Does it have a syntax checker of any sort,  or do I need to upload the file to SL to check it?

[Janet Rossini]

Hi ... I'm trying to link sublime text 2 as "external editor" in SL. Please advise me on what I need to do to set the external link so that it will launch S.T. I keep getting the message about not finding it, when I use 

 /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl

which I found recommended somewhere.

Advise me please? Thanks!

[Innula Zenovka]

Depends on your OS.   In Windows (or at least Windows 7) it's going to be something like  "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\sublime_text.exe"  (including the "double quotes").

[Tomos Halsey]

Not to revive an old thread but I was hoping to help some people. I have continued the project in my own Fork on github and have added code block highlighting and most if not all of the current functions listed on the lsl wiki. I still need to enter the default inputs for some functions and events but I will try and keep it up to date as new functions and what not come out.

https://github.com/To-mos/sublime-lsl-syntax