[cmake-developers] Improving Vim support in CMake

[Alex Merry]

On Monday 26 January 2015 18:22:41 Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 22:39:00 +0000, Alex Merry wrote:
> > Maybe it's just my colour scheme - I'll have a play with the colour
> > settings when I have some free time.
> 
> FWIW, I use neverland-darker, a 256-color scheme. Looking at it with an
> 8-color scheme does indeed have it all being the same. 'Label' seems to
> at least be different than 'String' in all the default color schemes
> whereas 'Constant' is the same as 'String' there. Unfortunately, there's
> no 'Variable' highlighting group and if we don't stick to the defaults
> available, none of the colorschemes will know what to do with it :/ .
> 'Tag' also seems like it might be viable.
> 
> Maybe making cmakeArguments -> Constant and cmakeVariableValue ->
> Identifier would work better? Strings are the same as unquoted words
> there though :/ .

That would explain it. I think variables are used in strings enough that 
making them different colours on standard colour schemes is sensible. I would 
argue that distinguishing variables and constants, say, is less important.

Alex