erlang.js

module.exports = function(hljs) {
  var BASIC_ATOM_RE = '[a-z\'][a-zA-Z0-9_\']*';
  var FUNCTION_NAME_RE = '(' + BASIC_ATOM_RE + ':' + BASIC_ATOM_RE + '|' + BASIC_ATOM_RE + ')';
  var ERLANG_RESERVED = {
    keyword:
      'after and andalso|10 band begin bnot bor bsl bzr bxor case catch cond div end fun if ' +
      'let not of orelse|10 query receive rem try when xor',
    literal:
      'false true'
  };

  var COMMENT = hljs.COMMENT('%', '$');
  var NUMBER = {
    className: 'number',
    begin: '\\b(\\d+#[a-fA-F0-9]+|\\d+(\\.\\d+)?([eE][-+]?\\d+)?)',
    relevance: 0
  };
  var NAMED_FUN = {
    begin: 'fun\\s+' + BASIC_ATOM_RE + '/\\d+'
  };
  var FUNCTION_CALL = {
    begin: FUNCTION_NAME_RE + '\\(', end: '\\)',
    returnBegin: true,
    relevance: 0,
    contains: [
      {
        begin: FUNCTION_NAME_RE, relevance: 0
      },
      {
        begin: '\\(', end: '\\)', endsWithParent: true,
        returnEnd: true,
        relevance: 0
        // "contains" defined later
      }
    ]
  };
  var TUPLE = {
    begin: '{', end: '}',
    relevance: 0
    // "contains" defined later
  };
  var VAR1 = {
    begin: '\\b_([A-Z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)?',
    relevance: 0
  };
  var VAR2 = {
    begin: '[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*',
    relevance: 0
  };
  var RECORD_ACCESS = {
    begin: '#' + hljs.UNDERSCORE_IDENT_RE,
    relevance: 0,
    returnBegin: true,
    contains: [
      {
        begin: '#' + hljs.UNDERSCORE_IDENT_RE,
        relevance: 0
      },
      {
        begin: '{', end: '}',
        relevance: 0
        // "contains" defined later
      }
    ]
  };

  var BLOCK_STATEMENTS = {
    beginKeywords: 'fun receive if try case', end: 'end',
    keywords: ERLANG_RESERVED
  };
  BLOCK_STATEMENTS.contains = [
    COMMENT,
    NAMED_FUN,
    hljs.inherit(hljs.APOS_STRING_MODE, {className: ''}),
    BLOCK_STATEMENTS,
    FUNCTION_CALL,
    hljs.QUOTE_STRING_MODE,
    NUMBER,
    TUPLE,
    VAR1, VAR2,
    RECORD_ACCESS
  ];

  var BASIC_MODES = [
    COMMENT,
    NAMED_FUN,
    BLOCK_STATEMENTS,
    FUNCTION_CALL,
    hljs.QUOTE_STRING_MODE,
    NUMBER,
    TUPLE,
    VAR1, VAR2,
    RECORD_ACCESS
  ];
  FUNCTION_CALL.contains[1].contains = BASIC_MODES;
  TUPLE.contains = BASIC_MODES;
  RECORD_ACCESS.contains[1].contains = BASIC_MODES;

  var PARAMS = {
    className: 'params',
    begin: '\\(', end: '\\)',
    contains: BASIC_MODES
  };
  return {
    aliases: ['erl'],
    keywords: ERLANG_RESERVED,
    illegal: '(</|\\*=|\\+=|-=|/\\*|\\*/|\\(\\*|\\*\\))',
    contains: [
      {
        className: 'function',
        begin: '^' + BASIC_ATOM_RE + '\\s*\\(', end: '->',
        returnBegin: true,
        illegal: '\\(|#|//|/\\*|\\\\|:|;',
        contains: [
          PARAMS,
          hljs.inherit(hljs.TITLE_MODE, {begin: BASIC_ATOM_RE})
        ],
        starts: {
          end: ';|\\.',
          keywords: ERLANG_RESERVED,
          contains: BASIC_MODES
        }
      },
      COMMENT,
      {
        begin: '^-', end: '\\.',
        relevance: 0,
        excludeEnd: true,
        returnBegin: true,
        lexemes: '-' + hljs.IDENT_RE,
        keywords:
          '-module -record -undef -export -ifdef -ifndef -author -copyright -doc -vsn ' +
          '-import -include -include_lib -compile -define -else -endif -file -behaviour ' +
          '-behavior -spec',
        contains: [PARAMS]
      },
      NUMBER,
      hljs.QUOTE_STRING_MODE,
      RECORD_ACCESS,
      VAR1, VAR2,
      TUPLE,
      {begin: /\.$/} // relevance booster
    ]
  };
};