On 5/18/07, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale / gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/07, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras / gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/12/07, Dizan Vasquez <dichodaemon / gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have the pleasure to announce the first public release of ultraviolet.
> > >
> > > http://ultraviolet.rubyforge.org
> > >
> > > Ultraviolet is a syntax highlighting library and engine. It
> > > uses TextMate[http://macromates.com/] syntax files and parses
> > > them using the Textpow[http://textpow.rubyforge.org] library. It
> > > supports more than 60 programming languages out of the box.
> > > Currently Ultraviolet supports (x)html output and latex output is on
> > > the works.
> >
> > Sweet!
> >
> > I would like to have some integration with VIM.
> >
> > Which text editor do you use?
>
> Judging on what he says, I'd be willing to be that he's using
> textmate.  Quite popular with the ruby community, but right now it
> only runs on Mac.
>
> There are quite a few vim extensions for ruby.  Here' are some that I
> found to give you a start;
> http://del.icio.us/rdenatale/vimruby
>
> For syntax highlighting any fairly recent vim installation should
> include ruby support.
>
> John Long, who designed the ruby-lang.org website has a vim syntax
> file to make ruby code look pretty in vim.
> http://wiseheartdesign.com/2006/03/11/ruby-blue-textmate-theme
>
> This page is actually describing his later textmate version but if you
> look near the end of the article before the comments, you'll find a
> link to his initial vim syntax file.

Yeah, I know, he told me about that, but I prefer more white backgrounds.

Anyway, thanks for your del.icio.us links!

I was hoping to have some VIM extension where you could describe a
syntax file in Ruby, it might be crazy, but interesting.

-- 
Felipe Contreras