Re: Fwd: Bison and Flex syntax highlighting

Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> On 04/11/2012 12:27 AM, Charles Campbell wrote:
>> Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>>> As suggested I forward this email here.
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Bison and Flex syntax highlighting
>>> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:20:45 +0300
>>> From: Panayiotis Karabassis <panayk@gmail.com>
>>> To: bugs@vim.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi! This is a feature request.
>>>
>>> Currently Vim only supports Yacc and Lex source files and displays Bison
>>> and Flex files incorrectly.
>>>
>>> Can we get support for these languages? I am willing to contribute the
>>> code for this, and have started making changes to the yacc.vim file, but
>>> there's not much point in continuing, if the changes won't be accepted.
>>> Also, to that end, I'd like to know if there are any particular rules I
>>> should follow while making the modifications (should I even be modifying
>>> yacc.vim or start anew?) and any sources of documentation/reference
>>> about Vim syntax files?
>>>
>>> Congratulations on one of the the best editors ever made!
>>>
>> If you wish to make modifications yourself, that's fine -- please send
>> them to me. Plus, send examples of the yacc/lex code that you're
>> affecting.
>> I'd prefer it if you made your modifications against the latest
>> yacc.vim and lex.vim, which are on my website under
>>
>> http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#vimlinks_syntax
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chip Campbell
>>
> Let me know if this agrees with you. It is for Bison only. Still quite
> some way to go. I describe the changes in CHANGES and provide an example
> for each change as well as a real-world Bison C++ parser, which was my
> original motivation.
>
Any more progress with your bison/flex mods?

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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