On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
> Hugh Sasse wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I am interested in exploring Lisp before too long. However, I have a
> > > > physical problem with the parentheses.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > You may find rainbow.vim helpful; see
> > >
> > > http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#RAINBOW
> > >
> >
> > that looks interesting. Done the vimball bit then I try to install
> > rainbow.vba (having gunzipped it);
> >
[Error reports trimmed]
> >
> > So that means it only applies to C files out of the box?
> >
>
> Its been awhile since I wrote the rainbow stuff; I'd forgotten that I'd
> already included it with vim 7.0's syntax/lisp.vim.
> Just put
>
> let g:lisp_rainbow= 1
>
> in your <.vimrc> and it'll be enabled for Lisp.
Thank you.
>
> > I think it would be more useful it it were setup as a plugin
> > one could use for Perl, Ruby, (your later message covers lisp), etc
> >
> The rainbow highlighting needs to be attuned to the specific syntax
> highlighting files for each language.
> Its done by assigning a region which begins with ( and ends with ). To retain
> normal highlighting inside
> such syntax highlighting regions, the region must "contain" language-specific
> highlighting regions.
Oh, right. I hadn't explored the internals. I'll have a look later...
>
> So, Perl and Ruby would need specialized versions of rainbow.vim. I use Perl
> but seldom, and don't know Ruby,
I use Ruby much more than Perl these days, so I'll see if I can do anything
useful along these lines. I've done small things with the syntax files
before, so I'll see if I'm biting off more than I can chew here :-)
It will be useful to learn how you've made this user selectable, rather
than the default, so I can separate concerns in future.
> and yours is the first request for rainbow highlighting for those languages
> I've received.
I don't know how big the intersect is between the set of vim users and
the set of people with nystagmus :-) Ruby is light on parentheses in
the way that Perl is, but sometimes....
>
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> > Your web page has:
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> >
>
> Yep! Definitely a mistake. Thank you for catching it!
glad I could help.
>
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell
>
Thank you,
Hugh
