Janis, On Mon, 4 May 2026 at 03:42, Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the information, Doug, it's quite useful for the "maintainer's > decision". :-) > > While I'm not specifically liking "lots of highlighting" I think it's good > to have it consistent with the named standard operators. The defined > colors (for black and white backgrounds, respectively) also appears to > be not too "invasive". So I'd suggest we remove the option altogether > and have the operator-symbol highlighting *on*, defined as standard. > > Would you be so kind to make this change? - Thanks! > Sure, I'll make the change in the next day or so. Please remind me if I forget. > Concerning: > "There's about a dozen syntax files offering a similar configuration > option." > If you mean that it's *common* to allow a (interactive or by configuration) > explicit setting of highlighting behavior of this specific element then we > could _disable_ it by a conditional, but frankly, I don't see a point > allowing > to configure every detail separately. > I was just pointing out that it wasn't a unique treatment. I think removing the configuration option is fine, even the Vim script syntax file unconditionally highlights both types of operators. > Regards, > Janis > > PS: An interesting question is whether it's possible to highlight > user-defined > operators and procedures. ;-) > In general, user-defined identifiers are not highlighted. They can be highlighted based on syntactic context but it's usually left to an LSP server that can limit the highlighting to valid identifiers. I'm unaware of an LSP server implementation for A68, that would be a good project. Regards, Doug -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAJ1uvoDOFiV2PAch4G_1QyhWUacHt6vKnGE8J896Uw14Vh5RyA%40mail.gmail.com.
