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34.Dd June 6, 1993
35.Dt VGRINDEFS 5
36.Os BSD 4.2
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm vgrindefs
39.Nd language definition data base for
40.Xr vgrind 1
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm vgrindefs
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Nm vgrindefs
46file
47contains all language definitions for
48.Xr vgrind 1 .
49The data base is
50very similar to
51.Xr termcap 5 .
52.Sh FIELDS
53The following table names and describes each field.
54.Pp
55.Bl -column Namexxx Tpexxx
56.Sy Name	Type	Description
57.It "pb	str	regular expression for start of a procedure"
58.It "bb	str	regular expression for start of a lexical block"
59.It "be	str	regular expression for the end of a lexical block"
60.It "cb	str	regular expression for the start of a comment"
61.It "ce	str	regular expression for the end of a comment"
62.It "sb	str	regular expression for the start of a string"
63.It "se	str	regular expression for the end of a string"
64.It "lb	str	regular expression for the start of a character constant"
65.It "le	str	regular expression for the end of a character constant"
66.It "tl	bool	present means procedures are only defined at the top lexical level"
67.It "oc	bool	present means upper and lower case are equivalent"
68.It "kw	str	a list of keywords separated by spaces"
69.El
70.Pp
71.Sh EXAMPLES
72The following entry, which describes the C language, is
73typical of a language entry.
74.Bd -literal
75C|c:\
76:pb=^\ed?*?\ed?\ep\ed?\e(\ea?\e):bb={:be=}:cb=/*:ce=*/:sb=":se=\ee":\e
77:lb=':le=\ee':tl:\e
78:kw=asm auto break case char continue default do double else enum\e
79extern float for fortran goto if int long register return short\e
80sizeof static struct switch typedef union unsigned while #define\e
81#else #endif #if #ifdef #ifndef #include #undef # define else endif\e
82if ifdef ifndef include undef:
83.Ed
84.Pp
85Note that the first field is just the language name (and any variants
86of it).  Thus the C language could be specified to
87.Xr vgrind 1
88as "c" or "C".
89.Pp
90Entries may continue onto multiple lines by giving a \e as the last
91character of a line.
92Capabilities in
93.Nm vgrindefs
94are of two types:
95Boolean capabilities which indicate that the language has
96some particular feature
97and string
98capabilities which give a regular expression or
99keyword list.
100.Sh REGULAR  EXPRESSIONS
101.Nm Vgrindefs
102uses regular expression which are very similar to those of
103.Xr ex 1
104and
105.Xr lex 1 .
106The characters `^', `$', `:' and `\e'
107are reserved characters and must be
108"quoted" with a preceding
109.Ql \e
110if they
111are to be included as normal characters.
112The metasymbols and their meanings are:
113.Bl -tag -width indent
114.It $
115the end of a line
116.It \&^
117the beginning of a line
118.It \ed
119a delimiter (space, tab, newline, start of line)
120.It \ea
121matches any string of symbols (like .* in lex)
122.It \ep
123matches any alphanumeric name.  In a procedure definition (pb) the string
124that matches this symbol is used as the procedure name.
125.It ()
126grouping
127.It \&|
128alternation
129.It ?
130last item is optional
131.It \ee
132preceding any string means that the string will not match an
133input string if the input string is preceded by an escape character (\e).
134This is typically used for languages (like C) which can include the
135string delimiter in a string by escaping it.
136.El
137.Pp
138Unlike other regular expressions in the system,  these match words
139and not characters.  Hence something like "(tramp|steamer)flies?"
140would match "tramp", "steamer", "trampflies", or "steamerflies".
141.Sh KEYWORD  LIST
142The keyword list is just a list of keywords in the language separated
143by spaces.  If the "oc" boolean is specified, indicating that upper
144and lower case are equivalent, then all the keywords should be
145specified in lower case.
146.Sh FILES
147.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/misc/vgrindefs -compact
148.It Pa /usr/share/misc/vgrindefs
149File containing terminal descriptions.
150.El
151.Sh SEE ALSO
152.Xr vgrind 1 ,
153.Xr troff 1
154.Sh HISTORY
155The
156.Nm
157file format appeared in
158.Bx 4.2 .
159