created by

Peter Odding

script type

syntax

description

This Vim plug-in uses the LuaInspect tool to (automatically) perform semantic highlighting of variables in Lua source code. It was inspired by lua2-mode (for Emacs) and the SciTE plug-in included with LuaInspect. For more information about the plug-in please refer to its homepage or the project page on GitHub: • http://peterodding.com/code/vim/lua-inspect/ • http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect If you have questions, bug reports, suggestions, etc. the author can be contacted at peter@peterodding.com. If you like this plug-in please vote for it below!

install details

Unzip the most recent ZIP archive file (see below) inside your Vim profile directory (usually this is "~/.vim" on UNIX and "%USERPROFILE%\vimfiles" on Windows), restart Vim and execute the command ":helptags ~/.vim/doc" (use ":helptags ~\vimfiles\doc" instead on Windows). Now try it out: Edit a Lua file and within a few seconds semantic highlighting should be enabled automatically! Note that on Windows a command prompt window pops up whenever LuaInspect is run as an external process. If this bothers you then you can install my shell.vim plug-in (see vimscript #3123) which includes a DLL that works around this issue. Once you’ve installed both plug-ins it should work out of the box!

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
luainspect.zip	0.4.24	2013-05-20	7.0	Peter Odding	• Updated miscellaneous scripts:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/942f58a
luainspect.zip	0.4.23	2013-05-19	7.0	Peter Odding	• Updated miscellaneous scripts:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/dab5a33
luainspect.zip	0.4.22	2013-05-13	7.0	Peter Odding	• Updated miscellaneous scripts:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/8e23d8e    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/9c88b0e
luainspect.zip	0.4.21	2013-05-12	7.0	Peter Odding	• Bug fix & improvements for running LuaInspect as external process:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/a95cd00
luainspect.zip	0.4.20	2013-05-12	7.0	Peter Odding	• Bug fix: Remove hidden Unicode character causing E129:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/1c183f4
luainspect.zip	0.4.19	2013-05-02	7.0	Peter Odding	• Updated miscellaneous scripts:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/2192365
luainspect.zip	0.4.18	2013-04-28	7.0	Peter Odding	• Updated miscellaneous scripts:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/e0815fe
luainspect.zip	0.4.17	2013-04-20	7.0	Peter Odding	• Make compatibility with miscellaneous scripts explicit:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/c66d2b7
luainspect.zip	0.4.16	2011-11-24	7.0	Peter Odding	• xolox#misc#os#exec() uses xolox#shell#execute() when available, falls back to system():    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/9b4c774    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/d488dd2    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/2161dc7
luainspect.zip	0.4.15	2011-11-21	7.0	Peter Odding	• Updated miscellaneous scripts:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/1529fff
luainspect.zip	0.4.14	2011-11-15	7.0	Peter Odding	• New :LuaInspectToggle command:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/1ed6e7a
luainspect.zip	0.4.13	2011-09-25	7.0	Peter Odding	• Updated miscellaneous scripts:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/c8c3405
luainspect.zip	0.4.12	2011-09-04	7.0	Peter Odding	• Updated miscellaneous scripts:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/fd90005
luainspect.zip	0.4.11	2011-08-28	7.0	Peter Odding	• Define version as variable, include version in messages:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/b92c629
luainspect.zip	0.4.10	2011-05-25	7.0	Peter Odding	• Added example to showcase semantic highlighting:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/0249104 • Make g:lua_inspect_path default compatible with Pathogen:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/26e6f35 • Bug fix: Only enable tooltips when supported: (thanks Micheal for the bug report!)    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/987eda1
luainspect.zip	0.4.7	2010-10-09	7.0	Peter Odding	• Improve syntax error messages for unnamed buffers:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/3cbe412883edda9ce4cc • Make parse_text() more robust against missing buffer variables:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/bc013227961f7dc24818 • Bug fix: Focus doesn't return to original window:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/806dcb21f9f7be1de715
luainspect.zip	0.4.5	2010-08-19	7.0	Peter Odding	• Always clear previously overlayed highlighting:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/62942b011979937fba84ea4795f7a5c593323f31 • Bug fix for `E776: No location list':    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/47b25952b638bb02f69c7fb479cbb2d57c806a94 • Make argument count warnings highlight only function names:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/22b75bcf657d4f55e48cce3801613ee3e3086af1 Lots of miscellaneous changes (see http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commits/) to make the plug-in compatible with the newest release of LuaInspect, which itself includes bug fixes that fix bugs in this plug-in (e.g. when you add some empty lines to the start of a Lua buffer the highlighting would break, this turned out to be a bug in the Metalua lexer).
luainspect.zip	0.4.3	2010-08-16	7.0	Peter Odding	• Bug fix: Strip newlines from warnings:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/59ba90c6c496dfe929cb83b896fe4e594d06354a • Ignore LuaInspect status messages on stderr (only applies when not using if-lua):    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/fd3920c5fd7faba9881a2b89525b5caa7753baa8 • Enable renaming variables that only differ in case:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/14b1ff64e29b6333d492a9fc8dfddb0427ee449e
luainspect.zip	0.4	2010-08-15	7.0	Peter Odding	Some new features and lots of bug fixes: • Support dark colorschemes following scite.lua:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/c6a8ecf5067329540d70a313336d28cd33dbf4f9 • Bug fix: Show error highlighting only in Lua buffers:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/2d671c489bdf42dfe68b289588c09e0a18c7ce0b • Bug fix: Overlay argument count highlighting:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/7f9cbd60cbbc949ddb5c809eac2ba3a88dad44a6 • Split plug-in into command definitions / autoload functions:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/527e1b76a06c04baf2b9b597f1fbd5e0ef02fca4 • if-lua now includes io.*; remove workaround    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/5f3bdbafcc5258487e94cf55dae9cde5374d97d1 • Time plug-in execution for all actions:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/2a33bcb6876ef1bd0705ea8738ee0e5c735fff42 • Use real buffer names instead of ‘noname.lua’:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/2e93bdd4f3de8a39fc22a6f2d29021a5873d057b • Improved highlighting for argument count warnings:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/17bb37cefb7e562cacc0d076c6189aaf92026aca • Use LuaInspect's get_value_details() function:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/cca74e2556c351e91e150bcf33b69f537b4a2644 • Show warnings by LuaInspect in location list:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/f0eeca23130a1bbff1293e7203dcde8f7340d06a • The packages for version 0.3.3 and 0.3.6 below should have been self contained but I failed to include the LuaInspect sources. This has been fixed now. Sorry about that!
luainspect.zip	0.3.6	2010-08-12	7.0	Peter Odding	• Warn user + show tooltips for syntax errors:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/b0b58008127bcecae658922707370f0df915847c • Better highlighting of selected variables:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/026fdd42bca366b95a271c3b8c9fa78cbc17c0f9 • Highlight wrong function argument count:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/72a058e773a97781eaa731567faf1f2268576563
luainspect.zip	0.3.3	2010-08-11	7.0	Peter Odding	• <F2> mapping to rename all occurrences of variable:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/0c52221a952874807e50d668b0c89511378bdb10 • 'gd' mapping to jump to variable declaration:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/bb99531941ca10ffd9b77a2a9dcd83a354a022cf • Tooltips to show variable details like state/type/signature/value:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/dc640de6799ba3da5f70073828da91ffaf0b596a
luainspect.zip	0.2.4	2010-08-10	7.0	Peter Odding	• Highlight syntax errors as spelling errors:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/f5b367d8dd7d9d6da1fb359ab19b0e44c49161f7 • Support automatic updates using GLVS plug-in:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/4c2c0bfd45e86dbfdbedf66c20425a3b4e9426a6
luainspect.zip	0.2.2	2010-08-10	7.0	Peter Odding	• Now works on Windows and disables easytags.vim:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/ce2b578242ccf3d4eef658accc7e4711f34fbbbc • Converted the plug-in to a self contained package: Unzip and you're off!    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/43307cbb3a99b3a6075640151626f50846ced474 • Don't show command prompts on Windows (integration with my shell.vim plug-in):    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/2689c2d1896d47c6aa3fa2d919d06d353cf0c17f
luainspect.zip	0.2.1	2010-08-07	7.0	Peter Odding	• Highlight occurrences of variable under text cursor:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/6a0430cff4f4806a89732037437562ef3c36d0a0 • Don't parse the text when it hasn't been changed:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/a9205704796749a0556ce6e7a7959654b3983caa • Use new LuaInspect API (without incremental parsing for now):    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/a14b977c69b6682054e80b9bcceb1c0f797fcd21 • Use if-lua by default (because of if-lua-corelibs.diff):    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/7bec1f49c6f12bbdde1f6d5a3470a9f66a8e34e2 • Support disabling plug-in for specific buffers:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/3e5967143918c6bc383fae0442f10210c81be0f8
luainspect.zip	0.1.4	2010-07-28	7.0	Peter Odding	• Don't perform semantic highlighting in 'diff' mode:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/47a223e11b469d871f8968c7f5bb7543d0f54e2c • Add word boundaries to Vim search patterns:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/59637bd8e2843b51780866f10899f759aa07c416 • (Performance) improvements suggested by Luis Carvalho:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/7de26617d1f659a3e173f8be5ed0305fee6a83a9 • `ErrorMsg' has better highlighting between colorschemes than `Error':    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/63dc4bb0f8094b45c7abe416d1ccbc28426d54cc • Simplified wrapper as suggested by David Manura:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/ed34601710a09222ef3351082c40cc249eae9821
luainspect.zip	0.1.3	2010-07-27	7.0	Peter Odding	• Enable users to define styles which the plug-in won't override:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/67777a75f4b9f4896d5818b57611d34c82a0187c • Enable highlighting on user defined events:    http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/d07a1ff10cbd78d5e16c28d234b5e37bc0de88ad
luainspect.zip	0.1.2	2010-07-27	7.0	Peter Odding	README improvements, miscellaneous other changes: http://github.com/xolox/vim-lua-inspect/commit/ec4e1c31facda80b316a5062fe71a4fe40e07f84
luainspect.zip	0.1	2010-07-27	7.0	Peter Odding	Initial upload

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