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+# https://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp
+# ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
+
+# Detection
+# ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
+
+hook global BufCreate .*/?(?i)sql %{
+    set buffer filetype sql
+}
+
+# Highlighters
+# ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
+
+add-highlighter -group / regions -default code sql \
+    string '"' (?<!\\)(\\\\)*" '' \
+    string "'" (?<!\\)(\\\\)*' '' \
+    comment '--' '$' '' \
+    comment '#' '$' '' \
+    comment '/\*' '\*/' ''
+
+%sh{
+    # Keywords
+    keywords="ALTER|AS|ASC|AUTO_INCREMENT|CHECK|CONSTRAINT|CREATE|DATABASE|DEFAULT|DELETE|DESC|DISTINCT|DROP"
+    keywords="${keywords}|EXISTS|FOREIGN KEY|FROM|FULL JOIN|FULL OUTER JOIN|GROUP BY|HAVING|INDEX|INNER JOIN"
+    keywords="${keywords}|INSERT INTO|INTO|JOIN|LEFT JOIN|LEFT OUTER JOIN|LIMIT|MODIFY|NOT NULL|ON|ORDER BY|PRIMARY KEY"
+    keywords="${keywords}|REFERENCES|RIGHT JOIN|RIGHT OUTER JOIN|SELECT|SELECT TOP|SET|TABLE|TRUNCATE|UNION|UNIQUE"
+    keywords="${keywords}|UPDATE|VALUES|VIEW|WHERE"
+
+    # Operators
+    operators="ALL|AND|ANY|BETWEEN|EXISTS|IN|IS|LIKE|NOT|OR|SOME"
+
+    # MySQL functions
+    functions="ABS|ACOS|ADDDATE|ADDTIME|ASCII|ASIN|ATAN|AVG|BIN|BINARY|CASE|CAST|CEIL|CEILING"
+    functions="${functions}|CHARACTER_LENGTH|CHAR_LENGTH|COALESCE|CONCAT|CONCAT_WS|CONNECTION_ID|CONV|CONVERT"
+    functions="${functions}|COS|COT|COUNT|CURDATE|CURRENT_DATE|CURRENT_TIME|CURRENT_TIMESTAMP|CURRENT_USER"
+    functions="${functions}|CURTIME|DATABASE|DATE|DATE_ADD|DATEDIFF|DATE_FORMAT|DATE_SUB|DAY|DAYNAME"
+    functions="${functions}|DAYOFMONTH|DAYOFWEEK|DAYOFYEAR|DEGREES|DIV|EXP|EXTRACT|FIELD|FIND_IN_SET|FLOOR"
+    functions="${functions}|FORMAT|FROM_DAYS|GREATEST|HOUR|IF|IFNULL|INSERT|INSTR|ISNULL|LAST_DAY"
+    functions="${functions}|LAST_INSERT_ID|LCASE|LEAST|LEFT|LENGTH|LN|LOCALTIME|LOCALTIMESTAMP|LOCATE|LOG"
+    functions="${functions}|LOWER|LPAD|LTRIM|MAKEDATE|MAKETIME|MAX|MICROSECOND|MID|MIN|MINUTE|MOD|MONTH"
+    functions="${functions}|MONTHNAME|NOW|NULLIF|PERIOD_ADD|PERIOD_DIFF|PI|POSITION|POW|POWER|QUARTER|RADIANS"
+    functions="${functions}|RAND|REPEAT|REPLACE|REVERSE|RIGHT|ROUND|RPAD|RTRIM|SECOND|SEC_TO_TIME|SESSION_USER"
+    functions="${functions}|SIGN|SIN|SPACE|SQRT|STRCMP|STR_TO_DATE|SUBDATE|SUBSTR|SUBSTRING|SUBSTRING_INDEX"
+    functions="${functions}|SUBTIME|SUM|SYSDATE|SYSTEM_USER|TAN|TIME|TIMEDIFF|TIME_FORMAT|TIMESTAMP"
+    functions="${functions}|TIME_TO_SEC|TO_DAYS|TRIM|TRUNCATE|UCASE|UPPER|USER|VERSION|WEEK|WEEKDAY|WEEKOFYEAR"
+    functions="${functions}|YEAR|YEARWEEK"
+
+    # SQL Server functions
+    functions="${functions}|CHAR|CHARINDEX|DATALENGTH|DATEADD|DATENAME|DATEPART|GETDATE|GETUTCDATE|ISDATE"
+    functions="${functions}|ISNUMERIC|LEN|NCHAR|PATINDEX|SESSIONPROPERTY|STR|STUFF|USER_NAME"
+
+    # MS Access functions
+    functions="${functions}|Abs|Asc|Atn|Avg|Chr|Cos|Count|CurDir|CurrentUser|Date|DateAdd|DateDiff|DatePart"
+    functions="${functions}|DateSerial|DateValue|Day|Environ|Exp|Fix|Format|Hour|InStr|InstrRev|Int|IsDate"
+    functions="${functions}|IsNull|IsNumeric|LCase|Left|Len|LTrim|Max|Mid|Min|Minute|Month|MonthName|Now"
+    functions="${functions}|Randomize|Replace|Right|Rnd|Round|RTrim|Second|Sgn|Space|Split|Sqr|Str|StrComp"
+    functions="${functions}|StrConv|StrReverse|Sum|Time|TimeSerial|TimeValue|Trim|UCase|Val|Weekday"
+    functions="${functions}|WeekdayName|Year"
+
+    # Oracle functions
+    functions="${functions}|ADD_MONTHS|ASCIISTR|BITAND|CHR|COMPOSE|COSH|DBTIMEZONE|DECOMPOSE|DUMP|INITCAP|INSTRB"
+    functions="${functions}|INSTRC|LENGTHB|LENGTHC|MEDIAN|MONTHS_BETWEEN|NCHR|NEW_TIME|NEXT_DAY|REGEXP_COUNT"
+    functions="${functions}|REGEXP_INSTR|REGEXP_REPLACE|REGEXP_SUBSTR|REMAINDER|ROWNUM|SESSIONTIMEZONE|SOUNDEX"
+    functions="${functions}|SYSTIMESTAMP|TANH|TRANSLATE|TRUNC|TZ_OFFSET|VSIZE"
+
+    # MySQL data types
+    data_types="LONGBLOB|LONGTEXT|MEDIUMBLOB|MEDIUMTEXT|SET|TEXT|TINYTEXT"
+    data_types_fn="BIGINT|BLOB|CHAR|DATE|DATETIME|DECIMAL|DOUBLE|ENUM|FLOAT|INT"
+    data_types_fn="${data_types_fn}|MEDIUMINT|SMALLINT|TIME|TIMESTAMP|TINYINT|VARCHAR|YEAR"
+
+    # SQL Server data types
+    data_types="${data_types}|bigint|bit|cursor|date|datetime|datetime2|datetimeoffset|image|int|money|nchar|ntext"
+    data_types="${data_types}|nvarchar|real|smalldatetime|smallint|smallmoney|sql_variant|table|text|time"
+    data_types="${data_types}|timestamp|tinyint|uniqueidentifier|varbinary|xml"
+    data_types_fn="${data_types_fn}|binary|char|decimal|float|numeric|nvarchar|varbinary|varchar|varchar"
+
+    # MS Access data types
+    data_types="${data_types}|Text|Memo|Byte|Integer|Long|Single|Double|Currency|AutoNumber|Date"
+    data_types="${data_types}|Time|Ole Object|Hyperlink|Lookup Wizard"
+
+    # Add the language's grammar to the static completion list
+    printf %s\\n "hook global WinSetOption filetype=sql %{
+        set window static_words '${keywords}:${operators}:${functions}:${data_types}:${data_types_fn}:NULL'
+    }" | sed 's,|,:,g'
+
+    # Highlight keywords
+    printf %s "
+        add-highlighter -group /sql/code regex '\b(${functions})\(.*\)' 0:function
+        add-highlighter -group /sql/code regex '\b(${data_types_fn})\(.*?\)' 0:type
+        add-highlighter -group /sql/code regex '\b(${keywords})\b' 0:keyword
+        add-highlighter -group /sql/code regex '\b(${operators})\b' 0:operator
+        add-highlighter -group /sql/code regex '\b(${data_types})\b' 0:type
+    "
+}
+
+add-highlighter -group /sql/code regex '\+|-|\*|/|%|&|\||^|=|>|<|>=|<=|<>|\+=|-=|\*=|/=|%=|&=|^-=|\|\*=' 0:operator
+add-highlighter -group /sql/code regex \bNULL\b 0:value
+add-highlighter -group /sql/code regex \b\d+(?:\.\d+)?\b 0:value
+add-highlighter -group /sql/string fill string
+add-highlighter -group /sql/comment fill comment
+
+# Initialization
+# ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
+
+hook -group sql-highlight global WinSetOption filetype=sql %{
+    add-highlighter ref sql
+}
+
+hook -group sql-highlight global WinSetOption filetype=(?!sql).* %{
+    remove-highlighter sql
+}