Syntax highlighting stuff not in Clojure

[Oskar Kvist]

Hi!

It would be nice to have all the functions and macros I define myself being highlighted as if they were clojureFunc and clojureMacro. What I do if I really want something highlighted is just add it in my vimrc, but that is not really feasible for every new function and macro. Also, there are problems with namespace qualifiers. I asked a related question on SO [1], and as you can see, kotarak said VimClojure had "dynamic highlightning". Maybe something like that could be done with vim-fireplace too? Unfortunately I'm not good enough at VimScript to do it myself. :(

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17559724/vim-syntax-matching-namespace-qualified-symbols

[guns]

On Wed 10 Jul 2013 at 08:23:19AM -0700, Oskar Kvist wrote:

> Hi!
>
> It would be nice to have all the functions and macros I define myself
> being highlighted as if they were clojureFunc and clojureMacro. What I
> do if I really want something highlighted is just add it in my vimrc,
> but that is not really feasible for every new function and macro.
> Also, there are problems with namespace qualifiers. I asked a related
> question on SO [1], and as you can see, kotarak said VimClojure had
> "dynamic highlightning". Maybe something like that could be done with
> vim-fireplace too? Unfortunately I'm not good enough at VimScript to
> do it myself. :(

VimClojure had this feature, and it was really quite nice. It would not
be too difficult to add this as a fireplace.vim plugin, and it has been
on my TODO list.

If you're willing to wait an unspecified amount of time, this plugin
will eventually materialize. :)

guns

[Oskar Kvist]

Hehe, OK.

[Tim Pope]

I actually tried to knock this out early in fireplace's development.
Actual implementation was pretty simple, but getting the REPL
connection up *before* syntax highlighting was activated was a tough
nut to crack.

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[guns]

On Sat 13 Jul 2013 at 10:17:56PM -0400, Tim Pope wrote:

> I actually tried to knock this out early in fireplace's development.
> Actual implementation was pretty simple, but getting the REPL
> connection up *before* syntax highlighting was activated was a tough
> nut to crack.

Did you find the syntax "repaint" too slow? I would appreciate a version
that makes a couple of extra scans through the buffer even if not
optimal.

I'm sure I'm not the only one!

guns

[Meikel Brandmeyer]

Hi,

Here is what VimClojure did:

The definition of additional syntax items happens only once during the buffer initialisation. So redrawing should not be an issues (besides maybe adding to much syntax items). The order of syntax highlighting and buffer init can be a problem. I encountered this only on Windows, though. So I added a check in the syntax code to do the buffer init if not done already. Note: buffer init != filetype plugin. The context used by VimClojure for doing backend stuff is just some buffer local variables. It doesn't really care when or where they are set. This worked without problems for me.

Meikel