nimforum mirror - Gedit syntax highlighting.

Divy (orginal) [2020-02-28T03:52:15+01:00] view original

Ubuntu's inbuilt text editor Gedit is quite good for quick coding.

I use the Python 3 highlighting for Nim but it would be good if we have one for Nim too.

Or, is it already there?

dom96 (orginal) [2020-02-28T11:36:44+01:00] view original

yes, it can. You "just" need to get it into gedit's source code, send them a patch.

Divy (orginal) [2020-02-28T12:23:46+01:00] view original

Oh well, that "shouldn't" be hard? lol

Stefan_Salewski (orginal) [2020-03-14T17:42:40+01:00] view original

I am skeptical

I am skeptical too -- why should they care when people not even care to ship an up to date file?

A never file is available here: https://github.com/StefanSalewski/NEd

But it is old too, its from 2016. Was working well with GTK3 gedit until 2 years ago, but then somehow my gedit install seems to have deleted it locally, and I never tried to restore.

Stefan_Salewski (orginal) [2020-03-15T09:10:10+01:00] view original

No, the gtksourceview based editors Gedit, Aporia and NEd are really no recommendation for Nim. Aporia was GTK2 only and has not been updated in the last 4 years, Gedit has no Nim support at all, and NEd was written only as a plain test for oldgtk3. And gtksourceview itself -- well no one has really worked on its C lib code in the last years, internally it is really complicated and many features what I may want are missing, and I have not the deep understanding, time or motivation to work on it. (To be fair, there is still one gtksourceview dev, I can not recall his name, but I think he has made large contributions long time ago, then was burned out, and recently tried to come back. And there is the gnome boulder guy, but I think he does not care that much about gtksourceview itself.)

spip (orginal) [2020-11-16T21:39:53+01:00] view original

@Stefan_Salewski, your nim.lang and nimdark1.xml are well supported in recent Ubuntu.


# as root
cp nimdark1.xml /usr/share/gtksourceview-4.0/styles/
cp nim.lang /usr/share/gtksourceview-4.0/language-specs/

Having them included in Gedit source would enhance Nim exposure and promote the language...

ITwrx (orginal) [2024-03-26T06:28:21+01:00] view original

I just now upgraded to F39 and i notice that vscodium says it's going to provide suggestions from Github's(Microsoft's) Copilot! So, i started looking again for a nim GUI editor i can live with, and i came across Elementary OS' Code[1]. Copying the two linked files above to /usr/share/gtksourceview-4/styles/ and /usr/share/gtksourceview-4/language-specs/ and restarting Code enabled Nim syntax highlighting. I don't know if everything is perfect yet, but it's way snappier than vscodium and using way less ram.

Just wanted to necro bump this with a big thanks to @Stefan_Salewski and @spip for the files and info and add my preliminary recommendation for Code for people wanting to get off of VSCode/ium who still want a GUI.

https://github.com/elementary/code

ElegantBeef (orginal) [2024-03-26T06:59:28+01:00] view original

Another option is Kate it's the kounterpart(Yes lame joke fite me) to code, it has LSP support so you can use nimlsp or nimlangserver.

ITwrx (orginal) [2024-03-26T18:11:34+01:00] view original

Thanks, I have Kate installed, and tried it prior to searching for Code. The GUI and it's defaults get on my nerves, but it's good to know about the LSP, assuming it will run without crashing. I probably need to see that i'm doing the latest incantation to give it the best shot at working. I've tweaked Kate, so it's not so bad for me now. I notice it's using twice the ram that Code is, but still a far cry from vscodium's usage.

ITwrx (orginal) [2024-03-26T19:12:00+01:00] view original

Do you have a working config for nimlangserver with kate? It evidently has built in support for nimlsp, but i just uninstalled that to possibly standardize on nimlangserver and enabled the lsp client for kate and it complains about nimlsp and it seems to ignore my (quite possibly wrong) User Server Settings for nimlangserver. I'm not seeing a way to enable/disable lang servs in the kate GUI to make it at least try to ignore nimlsp and focus on nimlangserver.

ElegantBeef (orginal) [2024-03-26T21:06:57+01:00] view original

Right I forgot, from my looking there is no way to override the default lsp settings. So what I did was install nimlangserver then rename it to nimlsp. It works, but less than ideal of course.

AmjadBHD (orginal) [2024-03-26T22:13:54+01:00] view original

You can use Sublime Text + Nimlime + LSP + nimlangserver, it works smoothly. I was working on an LSP plugin to handle installing, updating and configuring the server.

ITwrx (orginal) [2024-03-26T22:25:46+01:00] view original

Thanks. I guess i could have specified that i'm only interested in FOSS editors.

ITwrx (orginal) [2024-03-27T01:46:58+01:00] view original

This is working for me too and kate is using 166MB and nimsuggest is using 153MB. Much more reasonable than 1GB+ of vscodium. Thanks for the tip.

thuyduong181998 (orginal) [2024-03-28T11:03:02+01:00] view original

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