Vim Syntax Highlighting

[Scott Morgan]

Does anybody here manage the syntax highlighting package for Vim?

It's a bit out of date (Lua 5.3), doesn't handle local attributes from
5.4 and the new global keyword from 5.5.

Scott

[Родион Горковенко]

Where is its source by the way?

Googling around I only found "better syntax highlighting for lua" on github (which claims 5.4 support) but you probably do not mean this?

Overall probably there is not very large intersections of lua users and vim users (as both of these sets are substantial but still not very large) -

so probably if we want something to happen we should try ourselves...

sincerely yours,

Rodion

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[Matěj Cepl]

On Fri Jul 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM CEST, Родион Горковенко wrote:
> Where is its source by the way?
>
> Googling around I only found "better syntax highlighting for lua" on github
> (which claims 5.4 support) but you probably do not mean this?

It could very well be maintained directly in vim sources.
I wanted to suggest contacting people in the header of
syntax/lua.vim file, but I see that there were problems
contacting Marcus Aurelius Farias (awesome name!) since at least
2015 [1]. I think you would be better contacting vim_dev list
directly and ask for help there.

Best,

Matěj

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/vim...@googlegroups.com/msg34327.html
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[Matěj Cepl]

On Fri Jul 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM CEST, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> It could very well be maintained directly in vim sources.
> I wanted to suggest contacting people in the header of
> syntax/lua.vim file, but I see that there were problems
> contacting Marcus Aurelius Farias (awesome name!) since at least
> 2015 [1]. I think you would be better contacting vim_dev list
> directly and ask for help there.

Also, contacting these people [1] might be useful.

Matěj

[1] https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/00a00f5d3fc8dcf08e959c207a90f5902abc6a08

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