On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 08:38:58PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > As another poster mentioned, it's probably quite easy to add new types to > vim's syntax lists, but that's not quite what you wanted.
Ok, thanks to Rob's sugestion I can temporarily add these other typedef's into the syntax files. > The behavior you describe is, I think, the Right Thing. However, it > requires a full C/C++ parser, which is very complex---C and especially C++ > aren't context-free. I'm an emacs user myself, so I can't speak as to vi's > implementation, but I suspect that it uses regexps and string matching, > rather than a full parser to do syntax highlighting, just like emacs. If > that is in fact the case, then no, there's no way to do it. (Short of > implementing a full C++ parser, of course.) I thought that vim included ctags in it's distribution which is actually a full blown c/c++/perl/eifell/... parser. This is why I thought that I had mis-set some setting. Also, I just noticed on www.vim.org that version 6 is actually removing the inbuilt ctags, (presumably we can use ctags-exuberent or other). I seem to be getting a bad connection to vim.org, so I will try it out when this improves. Thanks for the suggestions, Mark.
