Re: An idea

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

Zeljko Vrba wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:56:36PM +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> > We were planning on using Vim for preprocessing things like this
> > instead

> Vim for preprocessing? Isn't it a bit too painful compared to using a
> "real" programming language?

You misunderstand.  Vim can easily be made to output the highlighting it
would apply to a document on the display to something else, e.g.,
outputting TeX directives instead.

A subthread on the subject can be found here:

http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/012885.html

It would require very little programming.  syntax/2html.vim, which
converts the buffer to a HTML document with syntax highlighting, is 526
lines in the current CVS incarnation.  A syntax/2context.vim would be
even shorter, perhaps 150 to 200 lines.  If I find the time I’ll write
something this weekend.  I’m catching a could though, so I might not
:-(.

(Note: This would thus allow highlighted code for any format Vim
understand, which is currently over 450!)

        nikolai

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