Re: dynamic syntax highlighting

[ Quoting <tmhedberg@gmail.com> in "Re: dynamic syntax highlighting..." ]
> Miek Gieben, Wed 2012-09-19 @ 14:14:17+0200:
> > Is something like this even remotely possible with Vim? Can it be done
> > with a vimscript?
>
> In order for it to work in the general case, you'd have to embed a
> parser for the language in question in Vim. Not a trivial thing to do,
> especially in VimScript. I'm sure that it could theoretically be done,
> but it would be a lot of work, and would probably slow down syntax
> highlighting (which is already slow in some cases) considerably.

Is a full parser really needed? My gut feeling tells me if there
is omni-completion available for a language, something like this
should be reasonable easy to add. (But I could be completely wrong
as I know nothing about Vim's internals).

Regards,

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