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VGRINDEFS(5) BSD File Formats Manual VGRINDEFS(5) NAME vgrindefs -- language definition data base for vgrind(1) SYNOPSIS vgrindefs DESCRIPTION The vgrindefs file contains all language definitions for vgrind(1). The data base is very similar to termcap(5). FIELDS The following table names and describes each field. Name Type Description ab str regular expression for the start of an alternate comment ae str regular expression for the end of an alternate comment pb str regular expression for start of a procedure bb str regular expression for start of a lexical block be str regular expression for the end of a lexical block cb str regular expression for the start of a comment ce str regular expression for the end of a comment sb str regular expression for the start of a string se str regular expression for the end of a string lb str regular expression for the start of a character constant le str regular expression for the end of a character constant nc str regular expression for a non-comment (see below) tl bool present means procedures are only defined at the top lexical level oc bool present means upper and lower case are equivalent kw str a list of keywords separated by spaces Non-comments are required to describe a certain context where a sequence that would normally start a comment loses its special meaning. A typical example for this can be found in Perl, where comments are normally start- ing with `#', while the string `$#' is an operator on an array. EXAMPLES The following entry, which describes the C language, is typical of a lan- guage entry. C|c::pb=^\d?*?\d?\p\d?\(\a?\):bb={:be=}:cb=/*:ce=*/:sb=":se=\e":\ :lb=':le=\e':tl:\ :kw=asm auto break case char continue default do double else enum\ extern float for fortran goto if int long register return short\ sizeof static struct switch typedef union unsigned while #define\ #else #endif #if #ifdef #ifndef #include #undef # define else endif\ if ifdef ifndef include undef: Note that the first field is just the language name (and any variants of it). Thus the C language could be specified to vgrind(1) as "c" or "C". Entries may continue onto multiple lines by giving a \ as the last char- acter of a line. Capabilities in vgrindefs are of two types: Boolean ca- pabilities which indicate that the language has some particular feature and string capabilities which give a regular expression or keyword list. REGULAR EXPRESSIONS Vgrindefs uses regular expression which are very similar to those of ex(1) and lex(1). The characters `^', `$', `:' and `\' are reserved characters and must be "quoted" with a preceding `\' if they are to be included as normal characters. The metasymbols and their meanings are: $ the end of a line ^ the beginning of a line \d a delimiter (space, tab, newline, start of line) \a matches any string of symbols (like .* in lex) \p matches any alphanumeric name. In a procedure definition (pb) the string that matches this symbol is used as the procedure name. () grouping | alternation ? last item is optional \e preceding any string means that the string will not match an in- put string if the input string is preceded by an escape character (\). This is typically used for languages (like C) which can in- clude the string delimiter in a string by escaping it. Unlike other regular expressions in the system, these match words and not characters. Hence something like "(tramp|steamer)flies?" would match "tramp", "steamer", "trampflies", or "steamerflies". KEYWORD LIST The keyword list is just a list of keywords in the language separated by spaces. If the "oc" boolean is specified, indicating that upper and lower case are equivalent, then all the keywords should be specified in lower case. FILES /usr/share/misc/vgrindefs File containing terminal descriptions. SEE ALSO troff(1), vgrind(1) HISTORY The vgrindefs file format appeared in 4.2BSD. BSD June 6, 1993 BSD
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