HEP Syntax

This repository contains syntax highlighting files for various HEP configuration files, organized per editor:

• vim/ - Vim and Neovim (syntax/ and ftdetect/ files)

List of supported configuration files:

• Pythia8
• EvtGen
• Whizard

TODO

Candidate configuration/event formats for future support, found while scanning HEP-FCC/FCC-config across its campaign branches:

• KKMC generator input (.input) - fixed-column, indexed-parameter format wrapped in BeginX/EndX.
• Herwig generator input (.in) - ThePEG repository scripting DSL (read/cd/set/insert/saverun on path-like object references).
• EvtGen particle data list (evt.pdl) - fixed-width columnar particle table, a different format from EvtGen .dec decay files.
• HepMC plain text event format.
• LHEF (Les Houches Event Format).

Testing

tests/fixtures/ holds real-world configuration files vendored from HEP-FCC/FCC-config (see tests/fixtures/SOURCES.md). make test runs every syntax/grammar that exists against these fixtures and fails if any non-whitespace, non-comment text is left with no highlighting at all. Individually:

• make test-vim - requires vim on PATH.
• make test-vscode - requires node/npm; installs vscode-textmate and vscode-oniguruma (the real engine VSCode uses) to tokenize fixtures against vscode/syntaxes/*.tmLanguage.json.