Request d.vim testing

Mon May 20 01:04:22 PDT 2013

On Monday, 20 May 2013 at 02:24:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, May 18, 2013 20:12:16 Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> Hello Vim users,
>> 
>> Sadly I don't have a good set of unittests for highlighting. 
>> I've
>> made some changes and think that it will be good to have them
>> part of vim 7.4
>> 
>> I'm requesting that you check that the new file has not 
>> butchered
>> highlighting for you.
>> 
>> https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/d.vim
>> 
>> * ASM blocks highlight comments
>> * in/out contracts no longer highlighted as storage class
>> * If a module name is the same as a keyword it will not be
>> highlighted on module declaration or import.
>> * scope highlights as a statement, as a storage class in
>> parameter list
>> * pragma will highlight known commands (lib,msg)
>
> Using this new d.vim file, I get whole piles of errors just 
> opening an empty
> .di file - starting off with
>
> Error detected while processing /home/jmdavis/.vim/syntax/d.vim
> line 4:
> E477: No ! allowed: <!DOCTYPE html>
> line 5:
> E488: Trailing characters: <html>
>
> and so on and so forth. I'm using vim 7.3 on Arch Linux. Maybe 
> I need 7.4 for
> it to work? Or maybe something else in my setup is messed up. I 
> only grabbed
> the syntax/d.vim file from your repo, since I don't know what 
> the others are
> and don't currently have anything like them, so that may or may 
> not be a
> factor. But based on the errors, it looks like my local version 
> of vim just
> plain can't handle the new d.vim syntax file.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Are you sure you downloaded it correctly? From the error message 
you got, it seems like you have downloaded the source of the 
GitHub page that displays the `syntax/d.vim` file.