syntax/r.vim
Jakson A. Aquino
I tried to contact the maintainer of syntax/r.vim by sending email to
both his address at the syntax/r.vim (13 days ago) and the one
published at http://uosis.mif.vu.lt/~zemlys (4 days ago). I didn't
get any reply. Chen Zhuojun also reports at
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2984 that the
maintainer of syntax/r.vim didn't reply to an attempt of contact.
The filetype plugin that I maintain has a few improvements to R syntax
highlighting and I would be glad if all users could benefit from these
improvements and not just the ones who download the plugin. How should
I proceed? I submitted two scripts related to R some days ago to this
list but it seems that this is not a good moment to make big changes
in the runtime files.
Thanks!
Jakson Aquino
John Beckett
> I tried to contact the maintainer of syntax/r.vim
I can't help you with that, but by the way...
We have a page on the wiki intended to list scripts relating
to R (because they are impossible to search for):
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Script:List_of_R_Project_scripts
John
Bram Moolenaar
Jakson A. Aquino wrote:
If a maintainer doesn't respond then we need to find someone to take
over. If you want to do this, that's great.
If the current version doesn't work, then replacing it with one that
does work can be done right now. If your plugin adds a lot of features
and the old one did work then we better postpone including it until
after the 7.3 release.
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Jakson A. Aquino
>
> Jakson A. Aquino wrote:
>
>> I tried to contact the maintainer of syntax/r.vim by sending email to
>> both his address at the syntax/r.vim (13 days ago) and the one
>> published at http://uosis.mif.vu.lt/~zemlys (4 days ago). I didn't
>> get any reply. Chen Zhuojun also reports at
>> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2984 that the
>> maintainer of syntax/r.vim didn't reply to an attempt of contact.
>>
>> The filetype plugin that I maintain has a few improvements to R syntax
>> highlighting and I would be glad if all users could benefit from these
>> improvements and not just the ones who download the plugin. How should
>> I proceed? I submitted two scripts related to R some days ago to this
>> list but it seems that this is not a good moment to make big changes
>> in the runtime files.
>
> If a maintainer doesn't respond then we need to find someone to take
> over. If you want to do this, that's great.
I would like to maintain the syntax/r.vim since I'm already doing this
in my plugin.
> If the current version doesn't work, then replacing it with one that
> does work can be done right now. If your plugin adds a lot of features
> and the old one did work then we better postpone including it until
> after the 7.3 release.
The current version works well. My plugin adds just a few
improvements. The most important are the specification of spell
regions (comments and strings) and the highlighting of R functions,
but this last feature is achieved by an additional file containing the
list of all functions. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to add this
list to the official Vim runtime because each new version of R
includes new functions and exclude others. Moreover, each user loads a
different set of R packages and, thus, the list of functions isn't the
same for all users. I'll send a patch to the syntax/r.vim after the
release of 7.3 if the current maintainer doesn't respond until the
release.
Thanks!
Jakson Aquino