Syntax file rewrite

[PotatoesMaster]

The syntax file needs a rewrite, for several reasons:

• The current highlighting does not take account of the context (Are we in the middle of a command? In a binding declaration?). I use syn region for exec commands and string and nextgroup= at several places, but it does not work that well as of now and need to be rethought.
• client.* keywords are not highlighted, because client itself is a keyword and take precedence.
• Command scopes are ignored.

i3 generate its syntax from custom files, parsed by a perl script (spec files, script). These files could be used to generate a syntax file.

[michaelmrose]

So how goes this project? Thanks for your work btw.

[PotatoesMaster]

You're welcome. :)

No progress on that so far, and I did not try recently. I will give it another shot in the next few days and write here how it is going.

[PotatoesMaster]

It's good so far. I now remember having problems with syncing before (highlighting was incorrect after scrolling). I read some documentation and added the line syn sync fromstart. Forcing vim to treat the file as a whole and not trying to be lazy fix that.