Re: Mallard Support in Vim and Geany

[Jaromir Hradilek <jhradilek gmail com>]

On 02/14/2013 03:24 AM, Jaromir Hradilek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Jaromir and I am very interested in the GNOME Documentation
> Project. I work as a technical writer and in my spare time, I contribute
> to the Fedora Documentation Project where I maintain the System
> Administrator's Guide. I am also a big open source fan and a casual
> software developer.
>
> Recently, I started learning Mallard and was shocked that the only
> editor that really supports it (and supports it well) is gedit.
> Unfortunately, gedit is not my editor of choice when it comes to
> extensive writing, so I decided to go ahead and add proper support for
> Mallard 1.0 to Vim, namely support for syntax highlighting and snippets.
> If you are interested, you can find the resulting syntax file and
> snippets for the snipMate plug-in here:
>
>    * Syntax:   https://github.com/jhradilek/vim-syntax
>    * Snippets: https://github.com/jhradilek/vim-snippets
>
> When I was in it, I also added support for Mallard to Geany, because I
> know quite a few of my friends use it:
>
>    * Syntax:   https://github.com/jhradilek/geany-syntax
>    * Snippets: https://github.com/jhradilek/geany-snippets
>
> Finally, I created a custom set of snippets for gedit, very similar to
> the snippets it currently has for DocBook:
>
>    * Snippets: https://github.com/jhradilek/gedit-snippets
>
> All these repositories contain a README file with detailed installation
> instructions. I sent my patches upstream, but so far, I only heard back
> from the Vim maintainer. I will also keep an eye on the Mallard 1.0
> DRAFT specification and do my best to keep all these files up-to-date.
>
> In addition, if there are any Emacs users out there who would like to
> try my snippets in their editor, please, let me know: I have been
> playing around with the nxml-mode and yasnippet and it should not be a
> problem for me to convert the Vim snippets for it.

You can now find my Emacs snippets here:

https://github.com/jhradilek/emacs-snippets

> Any feedback is, or course, most welcome.
>
> Cheers,
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Jaromir Hradilek