NOTES.md

I figured out GitHub's styles mostly by brute force, looking at source listings and eyeballing the class= attributes. Here are the notes I took along the way for each class. It's by no means complete and only represents what I observed in the few files I checked.

• bp: Special variable e.g. __FILE__ or None

• Comments

  • c: HTML, CSS comment
  • c1: Single-line comment (# ... or // ...)
  • cm: Multi-line comment (/* ... */)
  • cp: Declaration e.g. #include ... or <!DOCTYPE ...>

• Diffs

  • gd: Diff deletion
  • gd.x: Diff inline deletion
  • gi: Diff insertion
  • gi.x: Diff inline insertion

• Keywords

  • k: Keyword e.g. this, else, do, or CSS's margin, bold
  • kd: Variable, function declaration
  • kt: Type e.g. int, void

• Literals

  • m: Literal value e.g. 800px in CSS
  • mi: Integer value e.g. 55, 8L
  • mf: Float value e.g. 1.5

• Identifiers/variable names

  • n: Generic
  • na: HTML attribute name e.g. href=
  • nb: Declarations and special words, e.g. document in JavaScript, require in Ruby, NULL in C
  • nc: CSS class rule, Ruby class declaration
  • nf: CSS id rule, C function declaration
  • no: Ruby constant
  • nn: Python module name e.g. "utils" in import utils
  • nt: HTML tag, Haml tag, CSS tag rule
  • nv: Bash variable name
  • nx: JavaScript variable name or function call

• o: Operators and symbols, e.g. :, =, +, =>, ::

• p: Brackets and grouping symbols, e.g. {}, [], (), , in JavaScript, / in Haml (e.g. %br/)

• px: Property in JavaScript, e.g. "log" in console.log

• Strings

  • s: Quoted HTML attribute value
  • s1: Single-quoted string
  • s2: Double-quoted string
  • ss: Ruby symbol (:through)
  • se: \ in Bash (line continuation)
  • si: String interpolation
  • sr: Regular expression

• Variables

  • vc: Class variable
  • vg: Global variable
  • vi: Instance variable