CHchubot·Jun 13, 2025
no memory of nesting
It absolutely nests! Vim's model has recursion, and it works perfectly. Some details here:
https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils.vim/blob/main/doc/stag...
This highlighter is extremely accurate, and I would call it correct. I list about 3 known issues here, and they are all fixable/expressible in Vim's model:
https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils.vim/blob/main/doc/algo...
Please install it, and file bugs with any inaccuracies. If YSH code is valid, it should not be mis-highlighted. There is test data in false-postive.ysh and false-negative.ysh.
Try to break it!
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There are lots of Vim/Textmate plugins that are buggy, but it doesn't mean that all such plugins are.
generate semantic tokens outside
I'd also say that this doesn't really help, since I believe Tree-sitter is the most common way of doing that. I sho
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w at the top of the doc that Tree-sitter has issues in practice expressing shell (although admittedly it's not a fair comparison to YSH in Vim. Shell in Vim will have more problems, although in practice I find it pretty good)