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I'm a heavy vim user and am planning to use that for my TADS editing.

I don't suppose you've done any work on a syntax highlighting/indenting plugin for vim that you could share?

I plan to create one, matching the colour highlighting and indenting rules provided by Workbench, but it'd be awesome if you've got something already.

vim supports syntax highlighting for TADS 3 out of the box. The coloring for anonymous functions is a bit off, but it's never bothered me enough to try to fix it.

It handles indenting pretty well; the only hitch is if you use the normal object syntax...



... then it won't auto-indent the first and last lines. You can use the alternate syntax instead:



I find those extra braces kind of ugly so I just use the normal syntax and tab / backspace as needed.



That's the extent of my .vimrc customization for TADS 3. It lets me press F5 to save and build a project.

Oh yeah I should have just tried it!

Seems a little basic maybe, I'm wondering if it's just a copy of the C syntax highlighting. e.g. something: Topic is both in same colour, whereas I'd expect class name to be different to object name.

But it's definitely a start - I'll work on some improvements.



I'll let you know if I add anything else

Classes in T3 are just objects that start (by convention) with an uppercase letter, so I don't think it makes sense to distinguish them.

For example, these are all legal object declarations.