Talk

YAJS.vim and Vim Syntax System

By Wei-Ko Kao (othree)

yajs.vim(Yet Another JavaScript Syntax) is one of the most powerful JavaScript syntax plug-in for Vim now. It supports lots of new syntax from ECMAScript 2015. This talk will explain the design, rules and limitation of Vim Syntax system. And under this environment, its not easy to highlight everything correctly.

Details

Date & Time
Day 2 (25th June) 16:45 - 17:15
Location
Function Room 2
Category
JS
Language
English (with English Slides)
Target Audience
Developers, Users
Requirement
Basic knowledge of data analytics
Intermediate
JavaScript is very important for the world wide web universe. But JavaScript support on Vim is not update very often. So I keep contribute to the Vim community. One of my contribution is yajs.vim(Yet Another JavaScript Syntax). One of the most powerful JavaScript syntax highlight plug-in for Vim now. It supports almost every new syntax from ECMAScript 2015, JSDoc, lots of new Web API and fixed several old issues. This talk will first explain Vim syntax system. The design, concept and limitation of it. Then will share the problems encountered during the development in this environment. And finally, how I solved these problems.

Wei-Ko Kao othree

Photo of Wei-Ko Kao
Origin
Taiwan
Community
MozTW

Biography

othree,十多年前為了製作個人網頁而自學起 HTML、CSS 和 JavaScript,接著便一頭栽進網路標準的世界,並持續關注網路前端技術的發展,不時在部落格及各活動分享新知,近期關注 HTML5、CSS3、Web API、語意網等議題,被認為專長於 JavaScript,其實最喜歡寫的是漂亮的 HTML Markup。