Re: [Help-zile] [ANN] Zile Syntax Highlighter

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Reuben,

On 10 May 2014, at 00:36, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

On 9 May 2014 15:18, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:

I finally ported forward the syntax highlighter proof-of-concept I wrote in
the old Zi fork {ZILE without the L(isp) E(ngine)} into the Zz editor tree
of current master, and you can install it right now, as long as you have a
working Lua 5.2 with LuaRocks in your PATH

This all looks Most Excellent. Congratulations!

Thanks :-)

It's definitely done they agile way - the smallest amount of change that

could possibly work - and my knowledge of Lua and stdlib idioms has

improved enough in the 2 years since I first wrote that code that plenty

of it makes me wince a little now. But, the important thing is that it works,

and even in its current state is very usable.

I've fixed a few more buglets, and almost have nested grammars working

now. I have a custom YAML mode for editing Specl spec-files that drops

Into the Lua grammar for highlighting the Specl examples - while I was

able to reuse bits of the TextMate YAML grammar, that one was biased to

writing ruby-on-rails, so I've mostly thrown it away and made a new one.

Once I've ironed out the last few wrinkles I'll push the changesets.

It's nice that Zz can now do something that neither Vi nor Emacs does a

good job of, and I've been using exclusively for Zile development for a

couple of weeks now.

Cheers,
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Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)