CSON is not CoffeeScript (strictly speaking)

[Alhadis]

Preliminary Steps

Please confirm you have...

• reviewed How Linguist Works,
• reviewed the Troubleshooting docs,
• considered implementing an override,
• verified an issue has not already been logged for your issue (linguist issues).

Problem Description

I used a linguist-detectable=true override earlier tonight to mark my Alhadis/language-etc repo as CSON, not CSS. I was surprised to see the repo flagged as CoffeeScript instead.

I know it's a parent language (although should it be?), but this goes against the Principle of Least Astonishment.

URL of the affected repository:

Alhadis/language-etc@59cfb4f

Last modified on:

2018-12-06

Expected language:

CSON

Detected language:

CoffeeScript

[Alhadis]

Whoops. Just realised what was wrong with the title. /facepalm'

[pchaigno]

Is it really the fact that the parent language is displayed that astonishes you or the fact that CSON is grouped under CoffeeScript? I'm surprised by the latter, but find the former normal. Imagine if JSON with Comments was displayed when you mark Sublime Text files to be detectable...

[Alhadis]

Wait, no, you're goddamn right. 😥 This is another language which shouldn't be grouped under a "similar" language (like JSON and JavaScript). I believe I only connected CSON to CoffeeScript because, well... that's how JSON/JavaScript did it. 😠

[Alhadis]

So, after making a typo in this issue's title that turned out to be correct the first time (but only after correcting and pointing it out), I feel like an idiot and am now obliged to close this with a PR. 😢

[pchaigno]

Closing with a PR is never a bad thing :p

[Alhadis]

BTW:

Imagine if JSON with Comments was displayed when you mark Sublime Text files to be detectable...

That reminded me that doing so would result in JSON files classified as JavaScript. Which, like CSON/CoffeeScript, isn't... really accurate. I'll fix both. 👍