From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T08:42:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Vim's Ruby indenting

Quoting gsinclair@gmail.com, on Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:30:17AM +0900:
> To follow up Vincent's comments: to try your hand at this, there's no
> shortcut; just read the Vim help files on indenting and general Vim
> programming (it's fugly), and hack around with the existing
> highlighting code.  I don't understand it myself.  Indenting Ruby is
> Hard with a capital H.  Writing the logic in the 10th-rate programming
> language that is VimScript (or whatever they call it) is insane, but
> Nikolai has done a great job.

I wonder whether using Syntax, based on the ruby parser, would allow an
external tool to be written (in ruby...) that would do better. Down side
is it wouldn't indent as you type, upside is you could set indentprg,
and run the whole file through it.

Nikolai has performed miracles, but it almost seems like an excercise in
coding in Brainfuck, or some similar language.

Sam