PEG.js syntax highlighting for vim

[Andrew Lunny]

Hello all,

I'm a big fan of PEG.js - I used it to generate a parser for XCode project files[1] and it was a lot of fun.

I've written a small vim-script for syntax highlighting PEG.js files that you can find here:

https://github.com/alunny/pegjs-vim

It's missing syntax highlighting for the inline JS code, but I've found it pretty useful as is. Hopefully it's useful for others too.

Cheers,

Andrew

[1]:https://github.com/alunny/node-xcode/blob/master/lib/parser/pbxproj.pegjs

[David Majda]

2012/6/16 Andrew Lunny <alu...@gmail.com>:

> I've written a small vim-script for syntax highlighting PEG.js files that
> you can find here:
> https://github.com/alunny/pegjs-vim
>
> It's missing syntax highlighting for the inline JS code, but I've found it
> pretty useful as is. Hopefully it's useful for others too.

Nice work, I just added it into my vim config :-) I also retweeted
your tweet [1] so that more PEG.js users get to know about this.

BTW it would be cool if the highlighter could be automatically
generated from PEG.js's grammar itself, but I don't know whether this
is feasible (I know only little about vim's syntax highlighting
capabilities). Even if it is, it's certainly a project of much bigger
magnitude...

[1] https://twitter.com/alunny/statuses/213870117933694976

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[Andrew Lunny]

On 16 June 2012 04:48, David Majda <da...@majda.cz> wrote:

2012/6/16 Andrew Lunny <alu...@gmail.com>:

> I've written a small vim-script for syntax highlighting PEG.js files that
> you can find here:
> https://github.com/alunny/pegjs-vim
>
> It's missing syntax highlighting for the inline JS code, but I've found it
> pretty useful as is. Hopefully it's useful for others too.

Nice work, I just added it into my vim config :-) I also retweeted
your tweet [1] so that more PEG.js users get to know about this.

BTW it would be cool if the highlighter could be automatically
generated from PEG.js's grammar itself, but I don't know whether this
is feasible (I know only little about vim's syntax highlighting
capabilities). Even if it is, it's certainly a project of much bigger
magnitude...

I'm new to Vim syntax highlighting too (one of the main reasons I attempted this script) - I'm still trying to wrap my head around defining vim syntax rules in terms of other rules, something that's trivial in a fully-featured language.

My main impression tbh is that now I've got something working, I never want to touch VimL again :)

Cheers,
Andrew