Module details

Name of module:Vim syntax highlighting
Author:Aditya Mahajan
Short description:This module uses Vim editor's syntax files to syntax highlight verbatim code in ConTeXt
Filename:t-vim-2012.05.16.zip
Keywords: language
License: (unknown license status)
Current version: 2012.05.16
In sync with CTAN:yes
In distribution:no
In contextgarden:yes
Description:This module highlights code snippets using vim as a syntax highlighter. Such a task may appear pointless at first glance. After all, ConTeXt provides excellent syntax highlighting features for TeX, Metapost, XML, and a few other langauges. And in MkIV, you can specify the grammer to parse a language, and get syntax highlighting for a new language. But writing such grammers is difficult. More importantly, why reinvent the wheel? Most editors, and many other syntax highlighting programs, already syntax highlight many programming languages. Why not just leverage these external programs to generate syntax highlighting? This module does exactly that.