[Haskell-cafe] lhs syntax highlighting in vim

[Arthur van Leeuwen]

On 11 jun 2008, at 12:29, Ian Lynagh wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:23:58AM +0100, Eric Stansifer wrote:
>>
>> The syntax highlighting file for literate haskell in vim says that  
>> its
>> maintainer is haskell-cafe at haskell.org, so hopefully one of you will
>> find this relevant.
>>
>> In literate haskell files, vim optionally highlights the non-code  
>> text
>> according to TeX markup.  The syntax highlighting file looks for key
>> phrases (e.g., "\documentclass") to decide whether to use TeX markup
>> highlighting;  but it (erroneously, in my opinion, and at variance
>> with the documentation) will use TeX markup highlighting on any lhs
>> file that contains the '%' character anywhere in it.  The bug is in
>> line 74 of version 1.01 of the lhaskell.vim syntax highlighting file.
>
> I agree that this is wrong. It used to only look at the first 20  
> lines,
> so we were covering the case where a TeX file began with some TeX
> comments. We'd also look for ^\s*%, rather than a % anywhere. If we  
> are
> going to look at the whole file then checking for comments isn't
> necessary.

Unfortunately that scan is not necesarily compatible with people
dynamically turning on syntax highlighting. But just searching for %
is *dead* wrong, I fully agree. I've modified the search code and  
submitted
a patch to the Vim maintainers.

With kind regards, Arthur van Leeuwen.

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