Configure your editor for .kage files

There are multiple ways:

• Set your .kage files to be highlighted like .go files.
• Use sedyh/ebitengine-kage plugins for VSCode, Sublime or Vim. The VSCode plugin in particular is very complete and includes snippets and autocompletion, which can be super handy.
• If you are using Emacs, you might want to consider TLINDEN/kage-mode instead.

If you decide to go with the first option:

• VSCode: open a .kage file, press F1 to open the search, type "language", select Change Language Mode, then Configure File Association for '.kage', and select Go from the list of options.
• Sublime: open a .kage file and go to View, then Syntax, then Open all with current extension as... and choose Go.
• Vim: open a .kage file and use :set syntax=go.
• ...

If your editor is missing or the given instructions don't work, let us know and help us improve this!

Highlighting .kage files on Github

Another nice tip is to add the following line to a .gitattributes file when working with .kage shaders in a Github repository:

# make .kage shaders be highlighted in Github like Go code
*.kage linguist-language=Go

Until .kage becomes an officially supported file extension in Github, this is the best way to get the files highlighted. In fact, since this very repository uses this trick, you can find the file at the root folder.

Let us know if you have similar tricks for other platforms!