Two types of NFT file

[egberts]

I noticed that there are basically two types of nft file:

• command line (add/delete/flush/list)1
• table/chain nesting

This plugin is doing both or trying to? I'm asking as I'm evaluating VSCode community edition for the first time.

Disclaimer: I maintain the VIM portion of NFTABLE and nailed all the keywords in there: https://github.com/egberts/vim-nftables

[omBratteng]

Not exactly sure. I don't work that much with nftables, and just maintain the plugin to ensure new PRs get merged and dependencies are updated from time to time.

[Natolumin]

This plugin is doing both or trying to?

The grammar for this was initially written following the upstream nftables parser grammar, which handles all the input to nft -f

The 2 "styles" are mostly convention and aren't differentiated upstream. The "table/chain nesting" style is a special case of the command line where add is implied if there is no command word at the start of a line, but other than that they're exactly the same grammar