Re: Syntax highlighting

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 9:53 AM Softwafe Engineer <timsofteng@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello. Any plans about improving of syntax highlighting? I've tried treesitter in neovim and it's pretty cool. In other hand vim's regexp solution is not best I suppose.
>
> Thanks

IMHO, the Vim way of highlighting syntax gives pretty cool results;
but it's free and open source software, and with the possible
exception of Bram, no one is paid for even part-time work on it. This
has the following consequences:
- All (or almost all) developers are volunteers, nobody brings any
changes in Vim unless he (or she, for that matter) wants it.
- If you don't like something, there are no rules against backward
engineering: all the source is where anyone can find it, and if you
think you can make it work better, go ahead and propose (in the
vim_dev list) a patch to either the C source or the runtime files, or
both.
- But be warned that Bram highly values backward compatibility, and
changes which break existing runtime files, or existing user scripts,
have a vanishingly small chance of being accepted into the "official"
Vim source. However you're welcome to fork your own version of Vim the
way the Neovim developers did, and to distribute it yourself in a way
compatible with the Vim license. Or if Neovim is exactly what you
prefer, well, go ahead and use it.

Oh, and BTW, if you don't like this answer, please read "How To Ask
Questions The Smart Way"
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html then reformulate your
question.

Best regards,
Tony.

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