created by

Ross Presser

script type

ftplugin

description

I edit ASP code a lot.  There's usually three different langauges in the same file: HTML, Vbscript, and Javascript.  The ASPVBS filetype plugin handles this well, including the syntaxes from all three types, but it gets hard for me to distinguish them on the screen.  I wanted to assign different background colors to the different regions - but they're all highlight links, so if I change, say, Comment, then all of HTMLComment, AspVBSComment, and javascriptComment will all change too. This plugin changes that.  After an ASPVBS buffer is loaded, it recolors every ASP and javascript syntax item with a new background color - by retrieving the underlying linked highlight definition and redefining the specific highlight item.  ASP becomes dramatically easier to read. See the included file compare.asp.html (also here: http://member.newsguy.com/~rpresser/compare.asp.html). Requires the MultVals plugin <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=171>; for array handling. This technique could be applicable to other kinds of files that have multiple languages in them, like HTML/CSS, or C++ with embedded SQL, or maybe even someday XML.

install details

Either source this from your vimrc, or just drop it in a sytem or user plugins/ folder.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
ASPRecolor.vim	0.95	2003-07-17	6.0	Ross Presser	Vim 6.2 released different versions of the ASP/VBS and HTML/Javascript syntax files, and this broke the hard-coded Recolors in ASPRecolor 0.90.  This version introduces a function that walks the syntax clusters to determine what items to recolor.  It also tries a bit harder to avoid error messages.  **NOW REQUIRES MultVals.vim*** <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=171>;
ASPRecolor.zip	0.90	2003-02-12	6.0	Ross Presser	Initial upload

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