[Benji Fisher]
Let me take this opportunity to try once again to drum up support for an idea that I have proposed before. IMO it is too restrictive to make options (such as syntax highlighting, 'textwidth', and indent-related options) apply to a whole file. There should be a convenient, consistent way to tell vim to treat different sections of a file as having different file types. Examples:
* code snippets in an e-mail * PHP in an HTML file (or vice-versa) * perl/python/ruby inside a vim script * comments, text, and math inside LaTeX/plain TeX/conTeXt
I quite agree it would be an interesting possibility. For example, it would be nice having reST support in Python doc-strings (for those projects where it makes sense), programming language support within parser generators having their own separate syntax, and such things.
But I have realistically no time to offer (being usually rather short on free time), so I'm not sure how I / we could help.
-- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca
