Peter Hodge wrote:
> I have recently taken over maintainance of the PHP syntax file which
> was rather neglected for around 2 years. PHP is growing quite rapidly
> and unfortunately that means that by now there are well over 1700
> keywords which need to be correctly identified, and my next release of
> the syntax file is going to be over 100kb if I include all the
> built-in keywords, making it the largest syntax file distributed with
> Vim (it is already the second-largest).
>
> So my question is: is 100kb too big for a standard syntax file? Do I
> need to break it up and include extra features as a separate package?
I don't think it is too big, but you do need to take care of speed.
Both for loading the syntax file and for redrawing.
Keywords are fast. Best is when you put many of them in one "syn
keyword" command.
What slows down redrawing is the syncing and having many patterns.
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