Txtar

Zed Txtar

A Zed extension for txtar files, powered by tree-sitter-txtar.

Features

• Syntax highlighting for the txtar archive format itself: pre-marker comments, filename markers, and content.
• Outline view, listing each archived file by its marker filename.
• Bracket matching across -- name -- markers.
• Embedded language injection. Each archived file's content is parsed in the appropriate language based on its filename, so a main.go block is highlighted as Go, a go.mod block as Go Mod, an App.swift block as Swift, and so on. Falls back gracefully when a language is not installed.

Injected languages

By extension: Go, Python, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, YAML, TOML, Markdown, Bash, C, C++, Zig (.zig / .zon), Nushell, HTML, CSS, SQL, Lua, Make (.mk), XML, Protobuf, GraphQL, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Ruby, PHP, Elixir, Erlang, Nix, Haskell, OCaml, Dockerfile.

By full filename: go.mod, go.sum, go.work, Dockerfile (and Dockerfile.* variants), Makefile / GNUmakefile, Rakefile, Gemfile.

Languages whose grammars are built into Zed (Go, Rust, Python, etc.) work out of the box. Languages provided by other extensions (Zig, Nushell, Dockerfile, SQL, Lua, etc.) require those extensions to be installed for highlighting to appear inside the archived block.