TeX + Metapost syntax highlighting in Vim
In case someone finds this experimental piece of code for highlighting
metapost inside ConTeXt useful, put:
" ConTeXt
augroup filetypedetect
au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.tex setfiletype context
augroup END
somewhere to your filetype.vim (probably after TeX) and move the
attached file to syntax\context.vim.
If you have something like
\startMPpage
draw ...
\stopMPpage,
it will do the syntax highligting for metapost inside the \start-\stop pair.
There are still some "bugs" present (see comments in file), but I don't
know how yet to get rid of them.
I downloaded SpellChecker and SuperTab (autocomplete) today from the vim
website and it works great! (see http://contextgarden.net/Vim and feel
free to add any useful stuff there)
I was astonished as I saw autocomplete work. There are only a couple of
lines with an extraordinary functionality. I think that if someone
writes a good script to convert texshow to vim syntax highlighting
script, than autocomplete will be able to provide good hints for all the
existing commands in ConTeXt and the corresponding parameters. I'll try
to see what I can do, but please don't excpect any results too soon.
Mojca
" Vim syntax file
" Language: ConTeXt
" Maintainer: Mojca Miklavec
Mojca, just wonderful to see that there's another ConTeXt user who likes vim! Though I'm basically an emacs person, there are some editing tasks I like to do with vim - the line numbering alone is wonderful, there is no equivalent in emacs (and I've tried quite a lot of things!). So cheers to you. So far, I've basically been working with vim-latex, gnashing my teeth from time to time (oh the way they hijacked the alt key!). I've just added support for typesetting with texexec by adding this line to texrc: TexLet g:Tex_CompileRule_cont = 'texexec --pdf --nonstopmode $*' But I for one would be extremely happy if someone more knowledgeable would add proper ConTeXt support to vim the way Berend and Patrick added ConTeXt support to AucTeX! Best Thomas On Jul 8, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 7/8/05, Thomas A. Schmitz
I use vim everyday here with ConTeXt for vietnamese text :-) It's nice to have a set of macros/mapping for ConTeXt some where so vim's fans could share & enjoy with ... -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
like to do with vim - the line numbering alone is wonderful, there is no equivalent in emacs (and I've tried quite a lot of things!). So
Not wishing to discredit vim, I'd still like to ask what is missing with the solution presented at www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LineNumbers regards, Christopher
On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Christopher Creutzig wrote:
I've tried setnu.el, setnu+.el (or somesuch), and as soon as you add lines in the midst of a paragraph and then make emacs refill the paragraph, line numbers will not work anymore. It's especially annoying when you yank a number of lines into a paragraph. That's wrong with this solution. Vim is impeccable in this regard. Best Thomas
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
What is the syntax? I can exten ctstools to spit out a vim keyword table; it already handles scite, jedit and bbedit so adding vim is not undoable Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
(Sorry for responding to two separate mails, I'm a bit rushed, going on a three-day holiday.) Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
That's a great idea, I'll add that to my version
Version 7 has a spell-checker built in.
There's always the ever-simple CTRL-P/CTRL-N as well.
What is the syntax? I can exten ctstools to spit out a vim keyword table; it already handles scite, jedit and bbedit so adding vim is not undoable
Download vim and run :help syntax. But the short version is syn keyword contextKeyword ... ^-- group name ^-- keywords But that won't work for stuff beginning with \\. Then you'll have to use regexes and syn match contextKeyword ... ^-- regex Exactly what kind of keyword table are we talking about?, nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
That's great! I didn't know that. Some time ago some people were asking about ConTeXt support for vim, but I don't remember any responses. I like the "contains=@NoSpell" syntax and there are much more highlights in your code. Quite some pieces of code can still be added of course, but writing a good syntax highlighting scheme may become almost as is almost as tricky as writing a compiler for it :) \title, \subject, ... can be added Maybe some more extensive support for math as well ...
It doesn't use the rather bloated LaTeX/Plain TeX syntax definition, but my own blend,
Probably the opinions on what "bloated" means differ at that point. I find it very useful if wrong brackets or any other suspicious code is marked as an error before the compiler has to tell me that (and for an unexperienced user it is very difficult to find such a mistake from compiler messages). I'm very glad that your code got rid of LaTeX commands, but I find it great if we keep extending the code. Moreover, I even wanted to have command-specific code highlighting. ConTeXt has a big advantage over LaTeX: the central development. So theoretically it would be possible to highlight any known command different as the unknown (user-defined or misspelled) ones. PostScript syntax highlighting script in vim does exactly that for example. I wanted to suggest to make a cont-en.vim (cont-nl.vim, ..., maybe also tex-plain.vim) file with all the known ConTeXt commands. I don't know vim that well. I can imagine that this would cause some problems on slower machines, but including it would only be left as an option.
I made some corrections to it (off-list), but it is still far away from being perfect. If you know how to correct some pecculiarities mentioned in the comments, please do so and then adapt the code to fit into your highlighting script. It would be great if someone could give some hints about which commands switch the mode of typesetting: - startformula ... \stopformula - startbuffer ... \stopbuffer (I would highlight the content for "buffer" as a string) - \start???MP??? ...\stop???MP??? - start???XML??? ... \stop???XML???
Version 7 has a spell-checker built in.
I noticed that. But I suppose I'll wait for an official version of Vim to come out. "contains=@NoSpell" should probably also be added to mp.vim and mf.vim.
I just noticed that autocomplete is in no way as clever as syntax-highlighting is. It would be great if there would exist a similar support as the one for Java in Eclipse (only the keywords that make sense in the current context are offered for autocompletion). An example would be: if someone writes \adaptlayout[<ctrl-something> only the options height= and lines= would be offered. But at that point I have to answer to myself: "dream on!" It is probably possible, but too complex at this moment.
My most optimistic version: [all] of the commands defined in ConTeXt (see also the comments above), together with some additional checking if \start-s have their corresponding \stop-s and if parameters in the brackets are applicable for the command they belong too. \adaptlayout[lines=30,somestupidparameter=1] would thus highlight the valid "lines=" different from "somestupidparameter=1" \setupblackrules[alternative=c] would mark "c" as invalid (only a and b are possible). And already the first obstacle I came across: How can I define a regexp matching the [ ... ] area? Note that \firstcommand[ command={\secondcommand[x]}, text=$]$ ] Quite some work to do ... but perhaps doable one day unless Vim is too slow to process all that. No other highlighting script is as huge is this one would be. The first and most primitive step towards this is (as Nikolai wrote) simply listing: syn match contextKeyword ... ^-- regex for every ConTeXt command. mf.vim and mp.vim are both defined that way. They only highlight the keywords, they don't care about the syntax. Mojca
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
In case someone finds this experimental piece of code for highlighting metapost inside ConTeXt useful, put:
Hi! I don't want to be a party-pooper, but I have already commited support for the context file-type to vim7 CVS. Perhaps you can look over my version and make suggestions? It doesn't use the rather bloated LaTeX/Plain TeX syntax definition, but my own blend, nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}
On 7/8/05, Nikolai Weibull
Hi, Just tested your context.vim under vim 6.3.x; It's better than tex/latex standard syntax in vim 6.3 IMHO. I have only a small remark: The following code is valid in ConTeXt: \useURL [book-ns-openssl][http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/059600270X/qid%3D1024342376/103-8123753-9606263][][Network Security with OpenSSL] but the syntax considers % like a comment mark, so I see another color for the text after %. It's possible to make the comment pattern smarter ? :) Thank you, -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community
VnPenguin wrote:
Just tested your context.vim under vim 6.3.x; It's better than tex/latex standard syntax in vim 6.3 IMHO.
Great, thanks!
Hm, probably not. The problem with TeX is that it's so goddam flexible when it comes to "syntax". The whole deal with turning $ on and off, % into something else, and so on is really hard to capture in a syntax highlighter. To do so successfully, the highlighter would more or less have to parse the TeX document itself to understand when and where to do what. I guess special cases like the one above (with a very weird URL indeed) so that \useURL would be parsed differently, but it's impossible to always get these things right, nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}
(OK, this is old, but I finally did something about it.) VnPenguin wrote:
Actually, yes, there is. Wait for me to get a new version sent upstream to the Vim 7 CVS, add the following to your vimrc, and cheer: let g:context_spacious_comments = 1 This will make it so that comments must be at the beginning of the line or be preceded by a white-space, nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}
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