krischik wrote: >My proposal (if you have not guessed already) is to merge more >separate plug ins into modes. What do you think about the idea? > > Well, it sounds like a "mode" is a combination of three plugins (syntax, indent, ftplugin), and you want one person to maintain them all for a specific language as you did for clearcase. In the case of some of the syntax highlighting plugins I'm maintaining (tex, vim, sh, lisp, csh), that would either mean I give up maintaining the syntax highlighting plugins I wrote or taking on a bunch of other folk's plugins. I can't say I'm enthusiastic about taking on maintenance for other's plugins (I have quite enough maintaining already!).
In addition, syntax highlighting and indenting are quite different, for example. Consequently, becoming a maintainer of a "mode" would involve an a steeper learning curve than becoming a maintainer of one of the pieces. Perhaps I misunderstand your proposal; if there's to be several people maintaining a mode, then that's basically what we have now. If you're talking about the organization of the files (syntax/, indent/, ftplugin/ vs. mode/language/[with syntax, indent, ftplugins therein] I don't see any real benefit. Not all languages currently have indent or ftplugin portions (syntax highlighting is probably the biggest of the three portions), so one can't require modes without a lot of additional contributions. Regards, Chip Campbell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
