netcdf-cdl

NetCDF is a structured cross-platform data storage format, Github.

This package provides syntax highlighting for the NetCDF cdl language. The grammar of the language can be found in the most concise form in Ubuntu man pages

Currently supported CDL grammar components

• [x] groups
• [x] sections
• [x] dimension declaration
• [x] variable declaration
• [x] global attribute declaration
• [ ] typed attribute declaration
• [ ] user defined types
• [ ] data section

An example highligting

Can be achieved with the following user defined types in VSCode settings.json

"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
        "textMateRules": [
            {
                "scope": "entity.dimension.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#42aae2"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "storage.type.numeric.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#b27bb3"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "variable.other.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#d77f7f"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "support.attribute.global.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#42aae2"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "keyword.language.section.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#42aae2"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "constant.language.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#42aae2"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "constant.numeric.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#b8b990"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "string.quoted.double.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#90b991"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "punctuation.bracket.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#8e5abc"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "punctuation.comma.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#aba0fa"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "punctuation.semicolon.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#e9d5fb"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "punctuation.equals.cdl",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#c1dec5"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "comment.line",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#90B991"
                }
            }
        ]
    }

Release Notes

0.2.0

• Support group and dataset name syntax highlighting
• support language keywords inside variables and dimensions sections

0.1.0

Initial release of netcdf-cdl