Re: syntax files: how to prevent embedded syntax from leaking out of a region?

2023-10-06 Thread Edward McGuire
On Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 8:02:42 PM UTC-5 M wrote: > a consequence of having many poorly written syntax files. Main distribution included Your idea of a different override for syntax-include is the practical solution. As you pointed out, syntax-include is dependent on the authors of

Re: syntax files: how to prevent embedded syntax from leaking out of a region?

2023-10-04 Thread Edward McGuire
On Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 1:55:55 PM UTC-5 Christian Brabandt wrote: > Either nobody knows the answer or nobody understood the problem. Thank you Christian, I'm glad to know it got out there anyway. So maybe it will help for me to restate the problem, maybe not. This has to do with

Re: syntax files: how to prevent embedded syntax from leaking out of a region?

2023-10-04 Thread Edward McGuire
This question got no replies. Did it fail to be circulated? Does nobody know the answer? Is it a stupid question? :) On Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 1:22:07 PM UTC-5 Edward McGuire wrote: > On Friday, July 21, 2023 at 3:18:39 PM UTC-5 Edward McGuire wrote: > > how can I reliably ALW

Re: syntax files: how to prevent embedded syntax from leaking out of a region?

2023-09-14 Thread Edward McGuire
On Friday, July 21, 2023 at 3:18:39 PM UTC-5 Edward McGuire wrote: > how can I reliably ALWAYS limit embedded language highlighting to the region that contains it, without the chance that the embedded language can break out? Still looking for a solution to this -- how to prevent pre-instal

syntax files: how to prevent embedded syntax from leaking out of a region?

2023-07-21 Thread Edward McGuire
I developed a syntax file for Noweb -- if you're unfamiliar, it's a Literate Programming tool. Noweb source is LaTeX source, but with embedded code blocks. The embedded code blocks are delimited, and I define a syntax region that recognizes the delimiters. Inside a code block, I get

Re: The package you uploaded (vim-noweb.tgz) is empty

2023-05-30 Thread Edward McGuire
On Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 12:38:34 PM UTC Christian Brabandt wrote: > What is the script id? I might be able to check it on the server (no promises however). Originally "vim-noweb", and also when I ran into the problem I tried making the ID the same as the filename "vim-noweb.tar.gz" and

The package you uploaded (vim-noweb.tgz) is empty

2023-05-26 Thread Edward McGuire
This is my first time to try to contribute a Vim plugin to vim.org. Where is this newbie going wrong? I offered a tarball containing an ftdetect, a syntax, and a README and LICENSE. The site replied: "The package you uploaded (vim-noweb.tgz) is empty". I have already extracted my own tarball to