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Creating templates

One way to help lingfo is to create templates. Templates are text files that are used to get rid of most configuration.

What to know

Templates arent premade configurations. If you are looking to create an entire configuration, see: configuration/premade-configurations. You can only create them in official lingfo repository as a pull request.

Creating

Note

Before continuing, you will need to know basics of git, and have this repository cloned.

To create a language template, create a new folder in your branch and name it as your language file extension. So, for example: C++ -> cpp or rust -> rs.

Inside that folder, create 3 files:

  • if-statement.txt
  • import-syntax.txt
  • temp-file.txt

Here, we recommend to follow guide about how to create configuration for lingfo. Files are named like keys in the configurations are. After that you can create a pull request, and wait until its approved!