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(docs) rename to mode_reference; docs for callbacks
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joshgoebel committed Mar 12, 2020
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api
language-guide
reference
mode-reference
css-classes-reference
style-guide
plugin-api
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Mode attributes
---------------

Other useful attributes are defined in the :doc:`mode reference </reference>`.
Other useful attributes are defined in the :doc:`mode reference </mode-reference>`.


.. _relevance:
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If absent, ``begin`` defaults to a regexp that matches anything, so the mode starts immediately.


after:begin
^^^^^^^^^^^

**type**: callback (matchData, response)

This callback is triggered the moment a begin match is detected. ``matchData`` includes the typical regex match data; the full match, match groups, etc. The ``response`` object is used to tell the parser how it should handle the match. It can be also used to temporarily store data.

- ``response.data`` - a simple object data store. Can be used for building more complex rules where the end rule is dependent on the content of begin, etc.
- ``response.ignoreMatch()`` - pretend as if this match never happened. The mode is not entered. Continues trying subsequent modes in the current mode's ``contains`` list


end
^^^

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This is achieved with :ref:`endsWithParent <endsWithParent>` attribute.


before:end
^^^^^^^^^^^

**type**: callback (matchData, response)

This callback is triggered the moment an end match is detected. ``matchData`` includes the typical regex match data; the full match, match groups, etc. The ``response`` object is used to tell the parser how it should handle the match. It can also be used to retrieve data stored from a `begin` callback.

- ``response.data`` - a simple object data store. Can be used for building more complex rules where the end rule is dependent on the content of begin, etc.
- ``response.ignoreMatch()`` - pretend as if this match never happened. The mode is not entered. Continues trying subsequent modes in the current mode's ``contains`` list


beginKeywords
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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