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+
+# Detection
+# --------
+
+hook global BufCreate .*\.v %{
+    set-option buffer filetype coq
+}
+
+# Initialization
+# --------------
+
+hook global WinSetOption filetype=coq %{
+    require-module coq
+    hook window InsertChar \n -group coq-indent coq-copy-indent-on-newline
+
+    set-option window static_words %opt{coq_static_words}
+    add-highlighter window/coq ref coq
+
+    hook -once -always window WinSetOption filetype=.* %{
+        remove-highlighter window/coq
+        remove-hooks window coq-indent 
+    }
+}
+
+provide-module coq %{
+
+# Syntax
+# ------
+
+    # This is a `looks sensible' keyword syntax highlighting, far from being correct.
+    # Note that only the core language and the proof language is supported,
+    # the Ltac language is not (for now).
+     
+    add-highlighter shared/coq regions
+
+    add-highlighter shared/coq/comment region -recurse \Q(* \Q(* \Q*) fill comment
+    add-highlighter shared/coq/string region (?<!")" (?<!")("")*" fill string
+
+    add-highlighter shared/coq/command default-region group
+
+    # This is not any lexical convention of coq, simply highlighting used to make
+    # proofs look better, based on how people usually use notations
+    add-highlighter shared/coq/command/ regex [`!@#$%^&*-=+\\:\;|<>/]+ 0:operator
+    add-highlighter shared/coq/command/ regex \(dfs\)|\(bfs\)          0:operator
+    add-highlighter shared/coq/command/ regex [()\[\]{}]               0:operator
+
+    # numeral literals
+    add-highlighter shared/coq/command/ regex [-]?[0-9][0-9_]*(\.[0-9_]+)?([eE][+-][0-9_]+)? 0:value
+
+    evaluate-commands %sh{
+        # These are builtin keywords of the Gallina language (without tactics)
+        keywords="_ IF Prop SProp Set Type as at by cofix discriminated else end exists exists2 fix for"
+        keywords="${keywords} forall fun if in lazymatch let match multimatch return then using where with"
+        keywords="${keywords} inside outside"
+
+        # These are (part of) coq top level commands
+        commands="Abort About Add Admitted All Arguments Axiom Back BackTo"
+        commands="${commands} Canonical Cd Check Coercion CoFixpoint Collection Compute Conjecture Context Contextual Corollary"
+        commands="${commands} Declare Defined Definition Delimit Drop End Eval Example Existential Export"
+        commands="${commands} Fact Fail File Fixpoint Focus From Function Generalizable Global Goal Grab"
+        commands="${commands} Hint Hypotheses Hypothesis Immediate Implicit Import Include Inductive"
+        commands="${commands} Lemma Let Library Load LoadPath Local Locate Module No Notation Opaque"
+        commands="${commands} Parameter Parameters Primitive Print Proof Property Proposition Pwd Qed Quit"
+        commands="${commands} Rec Record Redirect Register Remark Remove Require Reset"
+        commands="${commands} Section Search SearchAbout SearchHead SearchPattern SearchRewrite Show Strategy"
+        commands="${commands} Test Theorem Time Timeout Transparent Types Universes Undo Unfocus Unfocused Unset Variable Variables"
+
+        # These are (part of) coq's builtin tactics
+        tactics="abstract absurd admit all apply assert assert_fails"
+        tactics="${tactics} assert_succeeds assumption auto autoapply"
+        tactics="${tactics} autorewrite autounfold btauto by case cbn"
+        tactics="${tactics} cbv change clear clearbody cofix compare"
+        tactics="${tactics} compute congr congruence constructor contradict"
+        tactics="${tactics} cut cutrewrite cycle decide decompose dependent"
+        tactics="${tactics} destruct discriminate do done double"
+        tactics="${tactics} eapply eassert eauto eexact elim elimtype exact exfalso"
+        tactics="${tactics} fail field first firstorder fix fold functional"
+        tactics="${tactics} generalize guard have hnf idtac induction injection"
+        tactics="${tactics} instantiate intro intros intuition inversion"
+        tactics="${tactics} inversion_clear lapply lazy last move omega"
+        tactics="${tactics} pattern pose progress red refine reflexivity"
+        tactics="${tactics} remember rename repeat replace rewrite right ring"
+        tactics="${tactics} set setoid_reflexivity setoid_replace setoid_rewrite"
+        tactics="${tactics} setoid_symmetry setoid_transitivity simpl simple"
+        tactics="${tactics} simplify_eq solve specialize split start stop"
+        tactics="${tactics} subst symmetry tauto transitivity trivial try"
+        tactics="${tactics} under unfold unify unlock"
+
+        echo declare-option str-list coq_static_words ${keywords} ${commands} ${tactics}
+
+        keywords_regex=$(echo ${keywords} | tr ' ' '|')
+        printf %s "
+            add-highlighter shared/coq/command/ regex \b(${keywords_regex})\b 0:keyword
+        "
+        commands_regex=$(echo ${commands} | tr ' ' '|')
+        printf %s "
+            add-highlighter shared/coq/command/ regex ^[\h\n]*(${commands_regex})\b 0:variable
+        "
+
+        tactics_regex=$(echo ${tactics} | tr ' ' '|')
+        printf %s "
+            add-highlighter shared/coq/command/ regex \b(${tactics_regex})\b 0:keyword
+        "
+    }
+
+# Indentation
+# -----------
+# Coq's syntax is based heavily on keywords and program structure,
+# not based on explicit, unique delimiters, like braces in C-family.
+# So it is difficult to properly indent using only regex...
+# Hence here only a simple mechanism of copying indent is done.
+    define-command -hidden coq-copy-indent-on-newline %{
+        evaluate-commands -draft -itersel %{
+            try %{ execute-keys -draft k <a-x> s ^\h* <ret> y gh j P }
+        }
+}
+
+}