[gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs

[gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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If anyone brave would like to play around with improved syntax
highlighting for ebuilds, eclasses and GLEP documents (and at some point
in the future when I figure them out, Gentoo style ChangeLogs)...

http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/overlay/app-vim/gentoo-syntax/

Chances are you'll have to re-emerge vim-core, etc-update and accept the
changes to /etc/vim/vimrc before these will actually work. (For those
who care, using set filetype= in a global configuration file is a bad
idea, since it can't be overridden from plugins... Using setfiletype is
the correct way to do things.)

The ebuild/eclass syntax file should be fairly clean, the GLEP one is a
mess and rather incomplete since vim doesn't particularly like that kind
of syntax... Patches encouraged.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:51:06 +0100 I wrote:
| http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/overlay/app-vim/gentoo-syntax/

A much improved updated version is now in the main tree. I strongly
suggest that anyone using vim to edit portagey things gives it a go. As
well as giving you better syntax highlighting for ebuild keywords, it'll
pick up certain mistakes and make them really stand out:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/gentoo-syntax.png

Suggestions, patches, etc welcomed. Smartarse remarks about emacs or
nano will lead to a smiting.

The following still applies if you've got a not-so-recent vim-core:

| Chances are you'll have to re-emerge vim-core, etc-update and accept
| the changes to /etc/vim/vimrc before these will actually work. (For
| those who care, using set filetype= in a global configuration file is
| a bad idea, since it can't be overridden from plugins... Using
| setfiletype is the correct way to do things.)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs

[purslow]

040826 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> it'll pick up certain mistakes and make them really stand out:
>   http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/gentoo-syntax.png
> Suggestions, patches, etc welcomed.

very pretty'n'all & mb this is a complaint re Portage,
but 'licence' is not a mistake: it is the way non-Americans spell 'license'.
in fact, the English distinguish 'licence' (noun) from 'license' (verb).
Canadians follow English usage when they think about it
& American when they don't ... (smile)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:19:02 -0400 purslow@sympatico.ca wrote:
| 040826 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > it'll pick up certain mistakes and make them really stand out:
| >   http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/gentoo-syntax.png
| > Suggestions, patches, etc welcomed.
| 
| very pretty'n'all & mb this is a complaint re Portage,
| but 'licence' is not a mistake: it is the way non-Americans spell
| 'license'. in fact, the English distinguish 'licence' (noun) from
| 'license' (verb). Canadians follow English usage when they think about
| it& American when they don't ... (smile)

Well that's the point. I speak Real English (TM), so I keep on screwing
up the LICENSE variable by spelling it correctly. In the context of an
ebuild, using the non-USian spelling *is* a mistake.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs

[purslow]

040826 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:19:02 -0400 purslow@sympatico.ca wrote:
>> 'licence' is not a mistake: it is the way non-Americans spell 'license'.
>> in fact, the English distinguish 'licence' (noun) from 'license' (verb).
>> Canadians follow English usage when they think about it
>> & American when they don't ... (smile)
> Well that's the point. I speak Real English (TM),
> so I keep on screwing up the LICENSE variable by spelling it correctly.
> In the context of an ebuild, using the non-USian spelling *is* a mistake.

yes, so isn't the solution to have ebuilds recognise both spellings ?
Gentoo is an international project, not like M$ etc .
gentle suggestion to developers ?  bug report ?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs

[Jon Portnoy]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:22:21PM -0400, purslow@sympatico.ca wrote:
> 040826 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:19:02 -0400 purslow@sympatico.ca wrote:
> >> 'licence' is not a mistake: it is the way non-Americans spell 'license'.
> >> in fact, the English distinguish 'licence' (noun) from 'license' (verb).
> >> Canadians follow English usage when they think about it
> >> & American when they don't ... (smile)
> > Well that's the point. I speak Real English (TM),
> > so I keep on screwing up the LICENSE variable by spelling it correctly.
> > In the context of an ebuild, using the non-USian spelling *is* a mistake.
> 
> yes, so isn't the solution to have ebuilds recognise both spellings ?

Do we really need to waste time and effort on something this trivial?

I think the solution is for everybody to deal with it, personally.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs, ChangeLogs

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:53:37 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| A much improved updated version is now in the main tree. I strongly
| suggest that anyone using vim to edit portagey things gives it a go.
| As well as giving you better syntax highlighting for ebuild keywords,
| it'll pick up certain mistakes and make them really stand out:
| 
| http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/gentoo-syntax.png

I've just released a new version (20040901). Changes include:

* Support for Gentoo ChangeLogs (see [1] for an example, top is default
vim behaviour, bottom is new behaviour)
* Better GLEP syntax
* Better error highlighting
* Some new eclasses on the supported list

Help is available in vim via :help gentoo-syntax .

Feedback would be much appreciated, especially since I'm trying to
persuade devrel to mention this package in the docs [2] in place of
their existing horridly broke setup.

If it doesn't work straight off, try re-emerging vim-core and running
etc-update.

[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/gentoo-changelog.png
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61882

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