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Syntax highlighting files shipped with Sublime Text and Sublime Merge

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Syntax highlighting files shipped with Sublime Text and Sublime Merge

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

If you find any bugs with the JavaScript syntax, definitely report them at https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/issues. As far as I know, our syntax definition is pretty spot…

wbond used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-06-16 06:02:52 UTC to 2019-03-14 15:30:53 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
0942v8653·Jul 1, 2015
I can't help but think it's funny that Sublime Text uses - XML for snippets (https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/blob/master/C%2B%2B/fo...) - YAML for syntax files (https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/blob/master/C%2B%2B/C%...) - JSON for settings (https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/blob/master/C%2B%2B/C%...) - and plist for TextMate compatibility (https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/blob/master/C%2B%2B/In...) Of course each one has a reason to be that way, but it must be really annoying to maintain.
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