Question

I have some issues with the built in syntax highlighting for JSP pages in Sublime Text 2.

See the code after the white line on line 11/12: The HTML tag <strong> is displayed correctly here.

The code before this line is not correctly colored: The second JSP closing tag (%>) is in red, but should be in orange like the first one and the HTML tags inside are recognized as Java code I think, although the scopes (visible with CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+P as text.html.jsp) do not change.

If I do the same with <?php or <? starting and ?> closing tags the problem does not exist, all colors seem to be right then.

Did anyone have the same problem? I made sure that the syntax is set to JavaServerPages (JSP).

I think the problem relates to these lines in HTML.tmLanguage file (JSP scope is inside HTML scope):

<dict>
    <key>embedded-code</key>
    <dict>
        <key>patterns</key>
        <array>
            <dict>
                <key>include</key>
                <string>#ruby</string>
            </dict>
            <dict>
                <key>include</key>
                <string>#php</string>
            </dict>
            <!--
            <dict>
                <key>include</key>
                <string>#smarty</string>
            </dict>
            -->
            <dict>
                <key>include</key>
                <string>#python</string>
            </dict>
        </array>
    </dict>

There is no include for JSP. But I’m only guessing… Any ideas?

Answer 1

I managed to edit the HTML.tmLanguage and Java Server Pages (JSP).tmLanguage files now… some matches for ruby overwrote the jsp scopes inside HTML <script> tags and I removed the match for curly brackets, and additionally I added some text.html.jsp includes to a few scope definitions.

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I copied my .tmTheme file and put it into the User package folder as User.tmTheme. I then added these lines to this file at the bottom:

    <dict>
        <key>name</key>
        <string>Embedded Code Punctuation</string>
        <key>scope</key>
        <string>punctuation.section.embedded</string>
        <key>settings</key>
        <dict>
            <key>fontStyle</key>
            <string>bold</string>
            <key>foreground</key>
            <string>#FD971F</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>name</key>
        <string>Embedded Java Code Directive</string>
        <key>scope</key>
        <string>punctuation.section.directive</string>
        <key>settings</key>
        <dict>
            <key>foreground</key>
            <string>#FD971F</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>name</key>
        <string>Embedded Java Code</string>
        <key>scope</key>
        <string>source.java.embedded.html</string>
        <key>settings</key>
        <dict>
            <key>foreground</key>
            <string>#F8F8F2</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>name</key>
        <string>Embedded Java Code String</string>
        <key>scope</key>
        <string>string.quoted.double.java</string>
        <key>settings</key>
        <dict>
            <key>foreground</key>
            <string>#E6DB74</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>

I then edited these two files in the folders HTML and Java and commented out some ruby includes and stuff.

See the files here:

HTML.tmLanguage
Java Server Pages (JSP).tmLanguage
JavaScript.tmLanguage