@shikijs/vscode-textmate

Fork of microsoft/vscode-textmate

Changes make in this fork:

• Change all async operations to sync; onigLib option now required to be resolved instead of a promise.
• Use tsup to bundle the lib, ship as a single file ES module.
• Remove debug flags and some other unnecessary exports.
• Convert EncodedTokenAttributes from namespace to class, rename to EncodedTokenMetadata
• Support RegExp literals in grammar object (#3)

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