Improving Editor Support#

We have recently fixed some bugs in the syntax highlighting support for Textmate and Sublime Text as well as for vim.

Sublime Text and Textmate#

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Syntax highligting in Sublime Text#

Textmate and Sublime Text used the same plugin which can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/dylan-lang/dylan.tmbundle.

  • Using Open Dylan specific modifiers (dynamic, sideways, etc) won’t break the highlighting.

  • locked and thread variable definitions are highlighted correctly now.

  • Keyword / header highlighting at the start of a file is improved.

Also, we’ve submitted a request for this plugin to be made available via Package Control for Sublime Text and hope that this is ready in the near future.

Vim#

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Syntax highlighting in vim#

We extended the Dylan support of vim:

  • Improved comment handling such that all comments should be highlighted correctly now.

  • Improved operator highlighting.

  • Enabled spell checking for strings, comments and headers. To see this, you can toggle :set spell in vim.

  • Enabled highlighting for the built-in functions as defined in the DRM.

The files for vim can be found in https://github.com/dylan-lang/dylan-vim.

Patches and further improvements are welcome!