Syntax family

A family of hand-written Sublime Text syntax grammars covering formats the built-in engine handles poorly or not at all — CSV, logfiles, YAML, Markdown (MyST), Python, regex, ledger, Taskfile, kitty config, and a metasyntax for grammar development itself. Each is a focused, publishable package with its own tests.

The problem

Sublime Text's default grammars mishighlight or ignore the formats a working engineer actually lives in — pipe-delimited logs, wide CSV, MyST-flavored Markdown, Taskfiles, terminal configs. Generic highlighting reads columns as prose, breaks on quoted fields, and gives no feedback while you write the grammar itself.

The approach

Each grammar is a hand-authored .sublime-syntax file: scoped, context-stack rules over the engine's regex core, with syntax test files that assert exact scope coverage the editor checks live. The metasyntax grammar is the meta-tool — it highlights .sublime-syntax files themselves, so grammar authoring gets the same feedback loop the grammars give their target formats.

What it demonstrates

A family of published grammars, each with tests and CI, is practice at the small-package discipline: scoping a format precisely, shipping it independently, and maintaining a fleet of focused tools instead of one brittle monolith.