Add language: Tape

[maaslalani]

Language name

Tape

URL of example repository

https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs

URL of syntax highlighting grammar

https://github.com/charmbracelet/tree-sitter-vhs

Most popular extensions

.tape

https://github.com/search?q=path%3A%2F%5C.tape%24%2F

[maaslalani]

Hi there! We built a tool that let's people produce terminal GIFs from code and we wrote a little language called .tape to help with that.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs

It would be awesome if the language files were syntax highlighted on GitHub since that is primarily where most people host them.

For a quick popularity search, search.github.com shows me that there are 1.2k results for the path:/\.tape$/ query.

Search: /path:\.tape$/

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Since this tool is generally used for demos of command-line tooling we would probably expect 1 - 3 .tape files for a CLI project using this tool.

Some users may use this tool to perform integration testing or multiple demos so they could have a higher number of tape files in their repository. We should also remove the VHS project itself from this search which has approximately 100 tape files for demonstration purposes.

Also, some of the .tape file extensions aren't VHS tape files which should also be excluded from the search.

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Additional Support

Tape language support has been built-in to Vim, Neovim, Helix.

• Vim: feat: added tape extension vim/vim#11452
• Neovim: vim-patch:9.0.0843: VHS tape files are not recognized neovim/neovim#20995
• Helix: language: added vhs helix-editor/helix#4486

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I would be happy to submit a PR if VHS .tape meets the popularity criteria.