Re: [Groff] vim syntax files

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 08:29 p.m. 28/04/2003, Robert D. Goulding wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I've taken over the maintenance of the n/groff syntax files included in the
> > vim distribution. Sooo, feel free to send your patches this way.
>
> This is great news! the vim syntax file has rather fallen behind groff
> development.  The most egregious flaw of vim's groff support is that the
> groff.vim file does not contain the essential line
>
> let n:nroff_is_groff=1
>
> so that nroff.vim does not, by default, recognize long macro names etc.

Ooops!... Fixed, and should appear in vim 6.2c. Please download vim 6.2b 
and give it a through beating (besides the fact that it is the best vim you 
can get, it has a somewhat improved nroff.vim file that needs more testing. 
Ahh! vim recognizes mom files now! :)

The existence of groff.vim is an interesting problem with a rather 
convoluted history. Making a long story short, groff.vim is a sort of hack 
to apease the minds of those who expect the file to be there, but nroff.vim 
is the way to go. groff.vim should be considered a helper if and only wants 
to do serious brain surgery on filetype.vim (where syntax recognition is 
setup).

> >
> > I am particularly interested in help with writing syntax files for the
> > preprocessors.
>
> I'll be happy to contribute...


And I'll be happy to receive the help :) I'm a white spacing bigot, thus my 
first priority is to find a magic syntax rule that will allow me to mark 
two or more spaces after punctuation marks (.!?) as a syntax error. Nothing 
I've tried yet has worked as I expected. :(