KDL Lexer Missing

[Random Void User]

KDL
Specification

KDL is a small, pleasant document language with XML-like node semantics ... to be used both as a serialization format and a configuration language, much like JSON, YAML, or XML.

all numbers can have underscores to help readability

grammar and expected semantics are well-defined and specified

[main Alexey]

Sublime, VSCode, Kate, vim, Zed, etc - support KDL. so Ok, I may add it, wait.

[main Alexey]

VSCode page shows that KDL has ~~15K downloads. good, not small count. I found example files at https://github.com/kdl-org/

[main Alexey]

before the release in addons-manager, I put lexer to git:
https://github.com/CudaText-addons/CudaText-lexers
pre-alfa version is there. more coloring of the first word in the line, is it needed? some keywords need hilighting? I am sure lexer is not OK yet.

[main Alexey]

updated lexer in git.

I did not yet hilite 'slash-dash comments'. VSCode syntax has 4 rules for them.

edit:
updated lexer, 'slash-dash' must be HL'ted now.

[Random Void User]

An installer question: why KDL does not show in packages.ini file. All other lexers do, just not KDL. I made an install .zip as follows:

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$ ls -1 lexer.KDL
KDL.cuda-lexmap
KDL.lcf
default-config.kdl
install.inf
$ 7z a -tzip ./lexer.KDL.zip ./lexer.KDL

The .zip I then opened in Cud to install. What should I do differently? Thanks

[main Alexey]

packages.ini will be updated when you will install pkg from addons-manager.

[main Alexey]

BTW, about your file 'default-config.kdl'. wiki says:

* Zip must contain: install.inf, .lcf file(s), .cuda-lexmap file per each lexer.

You can place file(s) "lexer LexerName.json" into zip archive, per each lexer in zip archive. These JSON files will be installed to the folder "settings_default" of CudaText. Ie, these are lexer-specific configs for lexers. Some lexers do this already: Lua, Pascal, PHP, Ruby, TypeScript.