🐞 Detect File Language Via shebang

[wjk]

Description

When I open a file in the editor, there is no syntax highlighting. Everything is black. Furthermore, the right-hand panel says the file is of type “Swift Source.” That is incorrect; the file is Python, as can be identified by the shebang statement on the first line. (I don’t know if CodeEdit looks for these, however.) The file has no extension.

When I change the editor type to Python manually, nothing happens. The text is still all black.

To Reproduce

1. Clone stevenshiau/clonezilla and open it in CodeEdit
2. Select the file bin/gen-torrent-from-ptcl in the file browser
3. Observe the black text

Expected Behavior

Bright and informative colors.

Version Information

CodeEdit: 0.0.3-alpha (32)
macOS: 13.4 (22F66)
Xcode: 15.0 (15A5160n)

Additional Context

I do not know if CodeEdit is smart enough to look the shebang line of a file to detect which syntax highlighter should be used. (CotEdit and other editors can do this.) If not, it should be.

Furthermore, if the file type truly cannot be determined, the default should be plain text.

Screenshots

[luah5]

CodeEdit currently cannot infer the file type without the file extension, just add the proper extension and syntax highlighting will work. Thanks for reporting this issue!

[austincondiff]

It is something we should look into though.

[thecoolwinter]

Moving this to CodeEditLanguages as the language detection is currently performed in that package.