Re: [vile] Rust syntax highlighting

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Paul van Tilburg" <address@hidden>
| To: address@hidden
| Sent: Sunday, November 5, 2017 10:25:37 AM
| Subject: Re: [vile] Rust syntax highlighting
| 
| On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 10:15:27AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
| > | Currently I am working on some Rust programs which Vile has no
| > | higlighting for at the moment.  So, I'm wondering...  what do we
| > | need?
| > | A keywords file, and some parser similar to the Ruby one?
| > 
| > yes.  I haven't looked to see what Rust's syntax looks like,
| > but the complication with Ruby (less extreme than Perl) is that
| > you can have regular expressions in the source with little clue
| > where the expression starts.
| 
| It's syntax is much closer to C/C++, in a sense, but more
| featureful.
| 
| > keywords are relatively simple, though it's surprising how hard it
| > can be to pry that information out of online documentation :-)
| 
| For Rust I have found this:
| https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/syntax-index.html
| 
| Which is part of the "first book", which is more describes everything
| feature by feature and also provides snippets per syntactal thing.
| (In contrast to the "second book", which is much more like a book
| that explains everything as a whole.)

I see.  The quoting in the "other syntax" would be most of the work: in
a quick read I see that they're using "'" (single-quote) in more than one
way.

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