On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jakson A. Aquino wrote: > >> I tried to contact the maintainer of syntax/r.vim by sending email to >> both his address at the syntax/r.vim (13 days ago) and the one >> published at http://uosis.mif.vu.lt/~zemlys (4 days ago). I didn't >> get any reply. Chen Zhuojun also reports at >> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2984 that the >> maintainer of syntax/r.vim didn't reply to an attempt of contact. >> >> The filetype plugin that I maintain has a few improvements to R syntax >> highlighting and I would be glad if all users could benefit from these >> improvements and not just the ones who download the plugin. How should >> I proceed? I submitted two scripts related to R some days ago to this >> list but it seems that this is not a good moment to make big changes >> in the runtime files. > > If a maintainer doesn't respond then we need to find someone to take > over. If you want to do this, that's great.
I would like to maintain the syntax/r.vim since I'm already doing this in my plugin. > If the current version doesn't work, then replacing it with one that > does work can be done right now. If your plugin adds a lot of features > and the old one did work then we better postpone including it until > after the 7.3 release. The current version works well. My plugin adds just a few improvements. The most important are the specification of spell regions (comments and strings) and the highlighting of R functions, but this last feature is achieved by an additional file containing the list of all functions. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to add this list to the official Vim runtime because each new version of R includes new functions and exclude others. Moreover, each user loads a different set of R packages and, thus, the list of functions isn't the same for all users. I'll send a patch to the syntax/r.vim after the release of 7.3 if the current maintainer doesn't respond until the release. Thanks! Jakson Aquino -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
