created by

David Necas

script type

syntax

description

Vim C extension syntax files for various libraries, mostly GTK+-related, plus a few scientific ones. It can be used as a replacement of gtk-vim-syntax (vimscript #1000) and might be seen as its successor, at least in spirit. However, the set of libraries and extraction method differ. The syntax files are generated from gobject-introspection (https://gi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) GIR files (with a few manual additions). Keyword types can differ from gtk-vim-syntax (e.g. Function vs. Macro). There is no mechanism for highlighting deprecated symbols differently. The package includes the extraction script. It can be used to generate newer versions or completely new syntax files from other GIR files. At present it contains the following syntax files: atk babl cairo fftw3 gdkpixbuf gegl glib graphene gsl gtk2 gtk3 gtk4 gtksourceview2 gtksourceview3 gtksourceview4 hdf5 jsonglib librsvg libxml2 pango vulkan xlib

install details

1. Copy the contents of directory syntax to your $HOME/.vim/after/syntax    (or copy just selected files). 2. Include selected files in your $HOME/.vim/after/syntax/c.vim like this:    runtime! syntax/glib.vim    runtime! syntax/gdkpixbuf.vim    runtime! syntax/gtk3.vim    runtime! syntax/pango.vim    runtime! syntax/cairo.vim

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
gir-vim-syntax.zip	20250825	2025-08-25	7.0	David Necas	Missing error domain constants like G_REGEX_ERROR were added.
gir-vim-syntax.zip	20250811	2025-08-11	7.0	David Necas	Syntax files for GMP, MPFR and OpenMP were added.
gir-vim-syntax.zip	20250805	2025-08-05	7.0	David Necas	Syntax highlighting file gsl.vim for GNU Scientific Library was added.
gir-vim-syntax.zip	20250714	2025-07-14	7.0	David Necas	The Vulkan syntax file was updated and covers the library much better now. Symbols for all Gdk4 backends are now hardcoded. Some Gtk3 typecasting macros mistakenly highlighted as Constant were corrected.
gir-vim-syntax.zip	20250708	2025-07-08	7.0	David Necas	The semi-useless GIR-based Cairo syntax highlighting was complemented with manual additions to make it useful. Backend-specific Gdk3 symbols for all backends are now hardcoded. Missing gunichar types were added to glib.vim.
gir-vim-syntax.zip	20250625	2025-06-25	7.0	David Necas	Hand-crafted libxml2 syntax file was cleaned up, adding, removing and correcting the type of many symbols.
gir-vim-syntax.zip	20250618	2025-06-18	7.0	David Necas	Missing fundamental GObject types such as G_TYPE_DOUBLE or G_TYPE_POINTER were added to glib.vim.
gir-vim-syntax.zip	20250610	2025-06-10	7.0	David Necas	Missing type constants for various non-classed types were fixed by better detecting the get-type constructs. Lists of extra symbols to add can now also define symbols to skip (omit). GLib syntax was updated to a slightly newer version 2.84.2. Several odd internal GLib macros were suppressed in the syntax files.
gir-vim-syntax.zip	20250602	2025-06-02	7.0	David Necas	Missing type constants like GTK_TYPE_LABEL were added. Two new syntax files were added: gtksourceview4 (generated from GIR) and hdf5 (created manually).
gir-vim-syntax.zip	20250531	2025-05-31	7.0	David Necas	A number of missing GLib symbols were added, in particular related to byte order conversion and limits of integral and floating point types.
gir-vim-syntax.zip	20250526	2025-05-26	7.0	David Necas	Initial upload

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