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From: Kyle Meyer <notifications@github.com>
To: kyleam/snakemake-mode <snakemake-mode@noreply.github.com>
Cc: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>,
	Your activity <your_activity@noreply.github.com>
Subject: Re: Not consider "input" a python keyword? (#20)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:05:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kyleam/snakemake-mode/issues/20/261398558@github.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kyleam/snakemake-mode/issues/20@github.com>

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> Rules have an input and an output directive, which are often used by
> name in code. I find it slightly annoying that `input` has the look of
> a Python keyword, while output does not.

Thanks for bringing this up.  It's the result of python.el's
`python-font-lock-keywords`, which assigns `font-lock-builtin-face` to
"input" because `input` is a built-in function.  Currently, Snakemake
mode's `snakemake-font-lock-keywords` only overrides this when it
thinks "input" is being used as a field key (i.e., matches "^ +input *:"),
in which case `font-lock-type-face` is used.

So, if I understand correctly, the main place where you're seeing
"input" highlighted differently than "output" is in the `run:` body,
while "input" in the `shell:` commands and in the `input:` field name
is highlighted the same as "output".  Is that right?

> How do you feel about this?  Would you consider changing
> `snakemake-mode` to not consider `input` a keyword for
> syntax-highlighting purposes?

I agree that "input" and "output" should have the same look.  Although
Python's `input` function works fine in Snakefiles when used outside
of rule blocks, I can't think of any good use-cases for it, so it
doesn't make sense for `python-font-lock-keywords` to have priority
here.

I'm OK overriding `python-font-lock-keywords` and removing the
highlighting of "input", but I wonder whether it's better to go the
other way.  Should output (and other built-in Snakemake objects that
can be accessed in the run block, like "wildcards" and "params") be
highlighted rather than removing the highlighting from input?


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-17 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-17  8:47 Not consider "input" a python keyword? (#20) Endre Bakken Stovner
2016-11-17 23:05 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2016-11-17 23:27 ` Kyle Meyer
2016-11-18  7:07 ` Endre Bakken Stovner
2016-11-22  8:10 ` Endre Bakken Stovner
2016-11-22 23:39 ` Kyle Meyer
2016-11-22 23:40 ` Kyle Meyer

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