Features
- Language grammars are linked into the executable as C functions - no need to load anything at runtime!
- Pluggable formatters. Inkjet includes a formatter for HTML, and writing your own is easy.
- Support for Helix editor themes, including a large collection of vendored themes to get you started.
- Highlight into a new
String
or astd::io::Write
/std::fmt::Write
, depending on your use case. - Specify languages explicitly (from an
enum
) or look them up using a token like"rs"
or"rust"
. Extremely cursedbuild.rs
Included Languages
Inkjet comes bundled with support for over seventy languages, and it's easy to add more - see the FAQ section.
Name | Recognized Tokens |
---|---|
Ada | ada |
Assembly (generic) | asm |
Awk | awk |
Bash | bash , sh , shell |
BibTeX | bibtex , bib |
Bicep | bicep |
Blueprint | blueprint , blp |
C | c , h |
Cap'N Proto | capnp |
Clojure | clojure , clj , cljc |
C# | c_sharp , c# , csharp , cs |
C++ | c++ , cpp , hpp , h++ , cc , hh |
CSS | css |
Cue | cue |
D | d , dlang |
Dart | dart |
Diff | diff |
Dockerfile | dockerfile , docker |
EEx | eex |
Emacs Lisp | elisp , emacs-lisp , el |
Elixir | ex , exs , leex |
Elm | elm |
Erlang | erl , hrl , es , escript |
Forth | forth , fth |
Fortran | fortran , for |
Fish | fish |
GDScript | gdscript , gd |
Gleam | gleam |
GLSL | glsl |
Go | go , golang |
Haskell | haskell , hs |
HCL | hcl , terraform |
HEEx | heex |
HTML | html , htm |
INI | ini |
JavaScript | javascript , js |
JSON | json |
JSX | jsx |
Julia | julia , jl |
Kotlin | kotlin , kt , kts |
LaTeX | latex , tex |
LLVM | llvm |
Lua | lua |
GNU Make | make , makefile , mk |
MatLab | matlab , m |
Meson | meson |
Nix | nix |
Objective C | objective_c , objc |
OCaml | ocaml , ml |
OCaml Interface | ocaml_interface , mli |
OpenSCAD | openscad , scad |
Pascal | pascal |
PHP | php |
ProtoBuf | protobuf , proto |
Python | python , py |
R | r |
Racket | racket , rkt |
Regex | regex |
Ruby | ruby , rb |
Rust | rust , rs |
Scala | scala |
Scheme | scheme , scm , ss |
SCSS | scss |
SQL (Generic) | sql |
Swift | swift |
TOML | toml |
TypeScript | typescript , ts |
TSX | tsx |
Vimscript | vimscript , vim |
WAST (WebAssembly Script) | wast |
WAT (WebAssembly Text) | wat , wasm |
x86 Assembly | x86asm , x86 |
WGSL | wgsl |
YAML | yaml |
Zig | zig |
In addition to these languages, Inkjet also offers the Runtime
and Plaintext
languages.
Runtime
wraps afn() -> &'static HighlightConfiguration
pointer, which is used to resolve the language at (you guessed it) runtime.Plaintext
enables cheap no-op highlighting. It loads thediff
grammar under the hood, but provides no highlighting queries. It's aliased tonone
andnolang
.
Cargo Features
- (Default)
html
- enables the bundled HTML formatter, which depends onv_htmlescape
. - (Default)
theme
- enables the theme API, which depends onahash
,toml
andserde
. - (Default)
all-languages
- enables all languages. language-{name}
- enables the specified language.- If you want to only enable a subset of the included languages, you'll have to set
default-features=false
and manually re-add each language you want to use.
- If you want to only enable a subset of the included languages, you'll have to set
terminal
- enables thetermcolor
-based terminal formatter, which depends on thetheme
feature.
FAQ
"Why is Inkjet so large?"
Parser sources generated by tree-sitter
can grow quite big, with some being dozens of megabytes in size. Inkjet has to bundle these sources for all the languages it supports, so it adds up. (According to loc
, there are over 23 million lines of C code!)
If you need to minimize your binary size, consider disabling languages that you don't need. Link-time optimization can also shave off a few megabytes.
"Why is Inkjet taking so long to build?"
Because it has to compile and link in dozens of C/C++ programs (the parsers and scanners for every language Inkjet bundles.)
However, after the first build, these artifacts will be cached and subsequent builds should be much faster.
"Why does highlighting require a mutable reference to the highlighter?
Under the hood, Inkjet creates a tree-sitter
highlighter/parser object, which in turn dynamically allocates a chunk of working memory. Using the same highlighter for multiple simultaneous jobs would therefore cause all sorts of nasty UB.
If you want to highlight in parallel, you'll have to create a clone of the highlighter for each thread. I recommend thread_local!
and RefCell
if you need a quick and easy solution.
"A language I want to highlight isn't bundled with Inkjet!"
Assuming that you or someone else has implemented a highlighting-ready tree-sitter
grammar for the language you want, adding it to Inkjet is easy! Just open an issue asking for it to be added, linking to the grammar repository for the language.
Alternatively, you can use Language::Runtime
, which will allow you to use grammars not bundled with Inkjet.
Other notes:
- Inkjet currently only supports grammar repositories that check in the parser generated by
tree-sitter
(in order to avoid a build-time dependency onnode
/npm
.) - Inkjet requires that the grammar include (at minimum) a
highlights.scm
query targeted at the basetree-sitter
library. Extended queries (such as those fromnvim-treesitter
) will not work. - I will not support blockchain/smart contract languages like Solidity. Please take your scam enablers elsewhere.
Building
For normal use, Inkjet will compile automatically just like any other crate.
However, if you have forked the repository and want to update the bundled languages, you'll need to use GNU Make with the included Makefile
:
make redownload
will wipe thelanguages/
directory and redownload everything from scratch.- Currently, this only works on *nix. You will need
git
,sed
andwget
installed. (Git clones the grammar repositories, whilesed
andwget
are used in miniature setup scripts for some languages.)
- Currently, this only works on *nix. You will need
make regenerate
will wipesrc/languages.rs
and regenerate it from scratch.make features
will generate a file calledfeatures
in the crate root, containing all the individual language features (ready to be pasted intoCargo.toml
.)make themes
will regenerate themod.rs
file insrc/theme/vendored
using the contents of thedata/
directory.
If, for whatever reason, you don't have GNU Make available: you can also perform these actions manually by setting the appropriate environment variables and Cargo flags:
INKJET_REDOWNLOAD_LANGS=true
formake redownload
.INKJET_REBUILD_LANGS_MODULE=true
formake regenerate
.INKJET_REBUILD_FEATURES=true
formake features
.INKJET_REBUILD_THEMES=true
formake themes
. Runcargo build --all-features
with these set. (The development portions of the build script are feature gated by default.)
Acknowledgements
- Inkjet would not be possible without
tree-sitter
and the ecosystem of grammars surrounding it. - Many languages are only supported thanks to the highlighting queries created by the Helix project.