This is a fork of Issam Khalil's Visual Studio 2013 fork of Alexandre Mutel's NShader syntax highlighting Visual Studio extension for shader languages. I've cloned it into my own github repository as I prefer to use github rather than CodePlex. The original nshader project is available here:
I have made some changes to Issam's version. You may now override the file type detection by specifying, on the first line of a shader file, a comment like so:
// shadertype=<type>
where <type> is one of:
hlsl
glsl
cg
unity
This will force the file to use the specified syntax highlighter. This is case sensitive and must appear exactly as above. Otherwise if the shadertype
tag is not present, the file extension will be used to decide what type of highlighting to use. The extension mapping is as follows:
HLSL syntax highlighter - .fx, .fxh, .hlsl, .vsh, .psh, .fsh
GLSL syntax highlighter - .glsl, .frag, .vert, .fp, .vp, .geom
CG syntax highlighter - .cg, .cgfx
Unity syntax highlighter - .shader, .cginc, .compute
The user keyword mapping files now override the built-in mappings (in Issam's version duplicates were ignored). NShader will look inside %APPDATA%\NShader for custom map files with the following names:
GLSLKeywords.map
HLSLKeywords.map
UNITYKeywords.map
Any keywords in these files will replace the built-in mapping. For example, if float is mapped as a type in the built-in mapping, it can be changed
to a keyword by adding it to the override file. Note that the CG highlighter is the same as the HLSL highlighter, so it doesn't have its own mapping.
I've also made some small changes to the built-in mappings so that certain keywords are now 'types' instead of 'keywords'.
Finally, there is now an additional colour setting for the 'type' keywords (available in the Fonts and Colors dialog).
The latest build is available from:
http://www.horsedrawngames.com/NShader.zip
This README and the built-in mappings are available in the zip file for reference.