Re: TeX + Metapost syntax highlighting in Vim

[Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.context-users@rawuncut.elitemail.org>]

(Sorry for responding to two separate mails, I'm a bit rushed, going on
a three-day holiday.)

Hans Hagen wrote:

> Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> > If you have something like
> > \startMPpage
> > draw ...
> > \stopMPpage,
> > it will do the syntax highligting for metapost inside the \start-\stop 
> > pair.

That's a great idea, I'll add that to my version

> > I downloaded SpellChecker and SuperTab (autocomplete) today from the vim 
> > website and it works great! (see http://contextgarden.net/Vim and feel 
> > free to add any useful stuff there)

Version 7 has a spell-checker built in.

> > I was astonished as I saw autocomplete work. There are only a couple of 
> > lines with an extraordinary functionality. I think that if someone 
> > writes a good script to convert texshow to vim syntax highlighting 
> > script, than autocomplete will be able to provide good hints for all the 
> > existing commands in ConTeXt and the corresponding parameters. I'll try 
> > to see what I can do, but please don't excpect any results too soon.

There's always the ever-simple CTRL-P/CTRL-N as well.

> What is the syntax? I can exten ctstools to spit out a vim keyword table; 
> it already handles scite, jedit and bbedit so adding vim is not undoable

Download vim and run :help syntax.  But the short version is

syn keyword contextKeyword  ...
            ^-- group name  ^-- keywords

But that won't work for stuff beginning with \\.  Then you'll have to
use regexes and

syn match   contextKeyword  ...
                            ^-- regex

Exactly what kind of keyword table are we talking about?,
        nikolai

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