On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:23:58AM +0100, Eric Stansifer wrote:
The syntax highlighting file for literate haskell in vim says that its maintainer is haskell-cafe@haskell.org, so hopefully one of you will find this relevant.
In literate haskell files, vim optionally highlights the non-code text according to TeX markup. The syntax highlighting file looks for key phrases (e.g., "\documentclass") to decide whether to use TeX markup highlighting; but it (erroneously, in my opinion, and at variance with the documentation) will use TeX markup highlighting on any lhs file that contains the '%' character anywhere in it. The bug is in line 74 of version 1.01 of the lhaskell.vim syntax highlighting file.
I agree that this is wrong. It used to only look at the first 20 lines, so we were covering the case where a TeX file began with some TeX comments. We'd also look for ^\s*%, rather than a % anywhere. If we are going to look at the whole file then checking for comments isn't necessary. Thanks Ian