[ANN] vim-clojure-highlight

[guns]

Hello,

I'm sure many of you miss the DynamicHighlighting feature from
VimClojure. vim-clojure-highlight is essentially a reimplementation of
that feature as a fireplace plugin:

https://github.com/guns/vim-clojure-highlight

For those who are unfamiliar, this plugin highlights referred and
aliased vars from other namespaces in the same fashion as the vars in
clojure.core.

As suspected, writing this was quite straightforward, and also appears
to be reasonably fast.

This has only been tested on a console version of vim 7.4.131 on Linux,
so if this plugin does not work smoothly for you, please let me know!

Cheers,
guns

[Oskar Kvist]

Nice work!

Any reason you don't highlight local stuff? Like if I do a (defn something ...), something will become colored right there. Too much color? Anyway, if you change your mind, this will save you 2 min:

(defn- local-refs [ns]

  (map (fn [[name var]] [(str name) var])

       (ns-publics ns)))

[guns]

On Tue 11 Feb 2014 at 10:19:07AM -0800, Oskar Kvist wrote:
> Nice work!
>
> Any reason you don't highlight local stuff? Like if I do a (defn something
> ...), something will become colored right there. Too much color? Anyway, if
> you change your mind, this will save you 2 min:
>
> (defn- local-refs [ns]
> (map (fn [[name var]] [(str name) var])
> (ns-publics ns)))

Yes, highlighting local vars makes the buffer a little too colorful for
me, but I'm happy to make that configurable. Please give me a couple of
days and I'll make some time to add that to vim-clojure-highlight.

Cheers,
guns

[Oskar Kvist]

I noticed that if I don't have `lein repl` running, it takes a while for vim-clojure-highlight to fail. It is a bit annoying. Can something be done about that?

On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 5:39:37 PM UTC+1, guns wrote:

[guns]

On Thu 13 Feb 2014 at 10:09:20AM -0800, Oskar Kvist wrote:
> I noticed that if I don't have `lein repl` running, it takes a while for
> vim-clojure-highlight to fail. It is a bit annoying. Can something be
> done about that?

Sounds like you probably have vim-classpath installed. I'll look into it
later today!

guns

[Oskar Kvist]

Yes, I have vim-classpath.

[guns]

On Thu 13 Feb 2014 at 10:09:20AM -0800, Oskar Kvist wrote:

> I noticed that if I don't have `lein repl` running, it takes a while for
> vim-clojure-highlight to fail. It is a bit annoying. Can something be
> done about that?

Neil Kirsopp added a patch¹ that fixes the issue (he added this last
week, but I unfortunately did not notice).

I don't use vim-classpath, so I can't confirm, but I presume it works
for him. Sorry for the long turnaround!

guns

¹ https://github.com/guns/vim-clojure-highlight/pull/2

[guns]

Okay, vim-clojure-highlight now highlights local vars by default. It
took me a little longer than a couple of days (sorry).

https://github.com/guns/vim-clojure-highlight

And actually, now that it's on, I rather enjoy it. One nice unforeseen
benefit is that ^:private local vars are never highlighted, so the
absence of color now signals that a var is private.

Thanks for the suggestion!

guns