From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T18:21:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Vim's Ruby indenting

Sam Roberts wrote:

> 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.

This has been an idea of mine for some time, but I haven’t had time to
try to implement it.  It’d be nice to have something like this, but it
probably requires a lot of work.

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

Thanks.  The main problem is that Vim lacks some tools (i.e., functions
and such) that’d make this kind of stuff a lot easier to do.  EMACS is
a lot friendly in this regard,
        nikolai

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