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