mcedit-syntax-terraform

This package can be used to generate mcedit (Midnight Commander) syntax file for terraform (.tf) file format highlighting. It extracts terraform functions list, AWS resources and AWS data sources list and generates syntax file. Colors scheme can be customized as arguments or in template file

Adding into mcedit

You can generate new tf.syntax with different color scheme, or simply download latest release.

Copy the tf.syntax into your syntax folder /usr/share/mc/syntax/, or if you are using user-specific configuration, than $HOME/.local/share/mc/mcedit/.

You need to register new file type in your Syntax file, by adding following lines before unknown file type

file ..\*\\.(tf|tfvars)$ Terraform
include tf.syntax

Syntax file usually can be found in /usr/share/mc/syntax/Syntax or $HOME/.config/mc/mcedit/Syntax

Preview

Syntax file generation

go get github.com/envimate/mcedit-syntax-terraform
mcedit-syntax-terraform > tf.syntax

You can specify different colors

Usage

Usage of colors:
  -data-source string
    	color of data sources (default "brightcyan")
  -func string
    	color of functions (default "yellow")
  -keyword string
    	color of keywords (default "white")
  -provider string
    	color of providers (default "red")
  -resource string
    	color of resources (default "brightcyan")
  -var string
    	color of variables (default "yellow")

For more information about syntax file format and allowed colors list please refer to mcedit manual.

Known issues

There is a formating issue with lines like

source_code_hash = "${base64sha256(file("email-function.zip"))}"

Terraform supports quotes in quotes, but mcedit cannot parse that propely, and inner part is being shown with color scheme of default context.

Other

If you want to get default black background color, edit $HOME/.config/mc/ini and change basecolor to

base_color=editnormal=default,black:editwhitespace=default,red