Re: what is the language for vim development
flyfish wrote: Hi, i would like to do some contribution in vim development, i have used vim more than one year in programming and text edit, but when i want to start to code for vim, i even do not know what language is used for vim development, could you give me some information and steps how to do? It all depends what you want to develop: if you want to add syntax highlighting for a new filetype, for instance, just add a few scripts in vim-script language. It's only when Vim needs to be recompiled that other languages must be used: * Without recompilation: - the global plugins, filetype plugins, indent plugins, syntax scripts, colorschemes, etc. are in vimscript - keymaps can be regarded as vimscript too, but the bulk of a keymap is inline data for one :loadkeymap statement - the message translations (*.po) are in yet another format - the documentation uses a special text format, with, among others, hyperlinks from |this| to *this* * With recompilation: - most of the Vim code is in C - On Windows, the OLE and Global IME modules are in C++ - the Perl module (if_perl.xs) is in some language that uses Perl to produce an intermediary C module * Tools for Vim compilation: - one makefile per compiler/platform/source directory - on Unix platforms, input files for configure Best regards, Tony. -- He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes ...
Re: what is the language for vim development
Hi, Thank you very much for such useful information, i started to read the usr_42.txt help file and it starts with a menu.vim file to explain how to add new menu, i do not want to add module now, but i only want to know what is the vim script language it is? and where to start to learn such language and if it is necessary to learn or just study to use it from some existing script code? Thank you very much. Reid Thompson wrote: flyfish wrote: Hi, i would like to do some contribution in vim development, i have used vim more than one year in programming and text edit, but when i want to start to code for vim, i even do not know what language is used for vim development, could you give me some information and steps how to do? http://www.vim.org/download.php http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/vim7/ the language is C. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/what-is-the-language-for-vim-development-tf3562125.html#a9968533 Sent from the Vim - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
what is the language for vim development
Hi, i would like to do some contribution in vim development, i have used vim more than one year in programming and text edit, but when i want to start to code for vim, i even do not know what language is used for vim development, could you give me some information and steps how to do? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/what-is-the-language-for-vim-development-tf3562125.html#a994 Sent from the Vim - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: what is the language for vim development
i would like to do some contribution in vim development, i have used vim more than one year in programming and text edit, but when i want to start to code for vim, i even do not know what language is used for vim development, could you give me some information and steps how to do? Vim is written in C and can be obtained at http://www.vim.org/sources.php Alternatively, you can write code in vimscript (the ex-like language used internal to Vim) which you can get familiar with by surfing on over to http://www.vim.org/scripts/index.php and there's plenty to read in Vim's internal documentation: :help usr_41.txt As it's open source, you're welcome to hack on any of it you like. However, if you want to offer something back, do take the time to search the scripts/plugins section of vim.org for an existing script/plugin that may already do what you want. If you're looking to attack some of the requested features, there's a running list of them at http://www.vim.org/sponsor/vote_results.php where I'm sure folks would be glad to have. Enjoy, -tim
Re: what is the language for vim development
flyfish wrote: Hi, i would like to do some contribution in vim development, i have used vim more than one year in programming and text edit, but when i want to start to code for vim, i even do not know what language is used for vim development, could you give me some information and steps how to do? http://www.vim.org/download.php http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/vim7/ the language is C.
