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cds-textmate-grammar
The TextMate grammar for the CDS language, which highlights .cds files where the CDS language server does not run, most visibly in GitHub's own file viewer through Linguist.
Makes .cds files legible where the CDS language server does not run — most visibly GitHub's own file viewer, via Linguist.
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Last pushLicenceApache-2.0
Where it sits
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Provides
Editor supportCAPEditor supportWorking in source code with the editor helping rather than treating it as text — completion, go-to-definition, inline errors, refactoring and preview.
Who is behind it
SAPSAPMaintains this
In the atlas: maintains 137, wrote 14@SAPmaintainerChristian GeorgiContributes to this
In the atlas: maintains 1, contributes to 53@chgeoChristian FuchsContributes to this
In the atlas: contributes to 3@manwithafoxSebastian WolfContributes to this
In the atlas: contributes to 22@SebastianWolf-SAPTim Schulze-HartungContributes to this
In the atlas: contributes to 4@tim-sh4 contributors
In the atlas: maintains 137, wrote 14@SAPmaintainerChristian GeorgiContributes to this
In the atlas: maintains 1, contributes to 53@chgeoChristian FuchsContributes to this
In the atlas: contributes to 3@manwithafoxSebastian WolfContributes to this
In the atlas: contributes to 22@SebastianWolf-SAPTim Schulze-HartungContributes to this
In the atlas: contributes to 4@tim-sh4 contributors
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PracticalFunctional boundary
Not an editor integration. If you want completion, navigation and diagnostics, that is the CDS language server, not this.
What it declares
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Editor supportEditor supportEditor help with source: completion, navigation, errors, refactoringSAP and community, narrow by design
provides
stated
provides Editor support
Supplies the grammar that highlights CDS syntax in TextMate-compatible editors and in GitHub file views through Linguist.
“allows syntax highlighting of CDS files in many IDEs, especially in Github's file viewers with the help of the Linguist library”
Editor help with source: completion, navigation, errors, refactoring
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quoted from SAP/cds-textmate-grammar under Apache-2.0, readSAP/cds-textmate-grammar/README.mdthe maintainer’s wordsOn GitHub
cds-textmate-grammar
The project provides a TextMate grammar for the CDS language of the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model. The grammar allows syntax highlighting of CDS files in many IDEs, especially in Github's file viewers with the help of the Linguist library.
Note that we don't accept any contributions to this project, as it is only maintained by SAP.
Licensing
Please see our LICENSE for copyright and license information. Detailed information including third-party components and their licensing/copyright information is available via the REUSE tool.
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