ColorLisp is a style-neutral syntax-highlighting library for Common Lisp
applications. It parses source with pinned Tree-sitter grammars and returns
semantic spans or complete text segments. The caller decides how categories
such as :keyword, :string, and :comment look.
(colorlisp:highlight-segments "(defun greet (name) (format t \"Hi, ~A\" name))"
:language :common-lisp)Language detection accepts a pathname and, for extensionless scripts, an optional shebang. Explicit language selection accepts the canonical names and common aliases.
Supported languages:
- Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure
- Haskell, OCaml, OCaml interfaces
- Rust, C, C++
- Python, Go, Ruby, Java, Lua
- JavaScript, TypeScript, TSX
- shell, TOML, JSON, YAML
- Markdown, HTML, CSS, Nix
ColorLisp builds one private native library in the XDG cache on first use. A
packager can ship native/libcolorlisp-tree-sitter.so beside the system, or
set COLORLISP_NATIVE_LIBRARY to a packaged copy.
./script/bootstrap
./script/check
./script/check --fix./script/check runs the tests, then checks the source with
cheque as cheque.sexp
configures it. --fix skips the tests and repairs what cheque can repair.
cheque and its tools are development dependencies: checks/qlfile lists them,
and the check installs them on first use into ~/.cache/cheque/tools/.
ColorLisp is licensed under the ISC license. Vendored components keep their
own licenses in vendor/licenses/. Exact revisions are recorded in
vendor/README.org.
Part of the Lambda Symbolics library shelf.