Remove hideFromUser invalid key

[pchaigno]

Is the hideFromUser serving any purpose? It's detected as invalid on GitHub.com and throwing errors (see github-linguist/linguist#3924 for further details).

[infininight]

Not sure I understand why this should throw an error, shouldn't any unrecognized keys just be ignored? Would have expected it to work something like CSS in that respect.

To answer the question this key is used in TextMate to hide the grammar (or bundle item in general) from the user. Since this grammar is only used for organizational purposes and should never be selected directly by the user we don't want it included in the selectable grammar list.

[pchaigno]

Not sure I understand why this should throw an error, shouldn't any unrecognized keys just be ignored? Would have expected it to work something like CSS in that respect.

Github.com now compiles grammars before using them for syntax highlighting. It's that compiler who is throwing an error (probably should be called a warning though). We're checking, for all these errors, that they are not actual mistakes as, otherwise, they might cause syntax highlighting bugs throughout github.com.

To answer the question this key is used in TextMate to hide the grammar (or bundle item in general) from the user. Since this grammar is only used for organizational purposes and should never be selected directly by the user we don't want it included in the selectable grammar list.

Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense! I'll whitelist this key.
Also, would you know where such keys are documented?

[infininight]

Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense! I'll whitelist this key.
Also, would you know where such keys are documented?

As this is intended to be a checkbox in the bundle editor GUI* there isn't really documentation for these sorts of keys as such.

* This specific key hasn't been added to the bundle editor yet as it's relatively new and not needed very often.

[pchaigno]

Ok. Thanks for the answer!