On 20 August 2013, Ingo Karkat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 13-Aug-2013 18:46 +0200, ZyX wrote:
>
> > I see that all g:vimsyn_embed flags say things like ?embed ? **(but
> > only if vim supports it)**?. This is ridiculous: you don?t have to
> > have vim lua support to code in lua and have syntax highlighting;
> > you specifically don?t have to have vim lua support to write or
> > watch lua<<EOF sections; and it is completely possible for oneself
> > to want to review {interp}<<EOF sections in foreign plugins before
> > deciding whether he needs to obtain Vim with {interp} support or
> > (my case) to watch correct highlighting of his own vimrc on machine
> > without specific interpreter support.
> >
> > I thus see no reason for using `(g:vimsyn_embed =~ 'p' &&
> > has("perl"))` checks without any option to always highlight embedded
> > perl code. If the intention is to indicate that interpreter is not
> > supported then the only place where `has("perl")` should be present
> > is the section where `g:vimsyn_embed` default value is computed:
> > those (almost every vim user) who do not set `g:vimsyn_embed` will
> > not notice any change in behavior, those who care will always
> > receive correct highlighting.
>
> I came to the same conclusion: While it is noble that the Vim syntax
> plugin notifies the user that the used script interpreter is not
> available in the current editor, having huge blocks of red error
> highlighting is certainly overdoing it and counterproductive, because,
> as we all know, reality isn't either black or white, and situations
> like these do happen.
[...]
+1 for this. People routinely edit files that only make sense (and
will only ever run) on remote servers. There are legitimate situations
where editing a file has nothing to do with actually running it.
/lcd
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