Tact highlight and grammar support for the VIM editor

[reveloper]

Summary

Adding support for Tact programming language syntax highlighting in the VIM editor.

ton-bounty created with @footsteps_helper_bot

Context

The Tact programming language is widely used for high-level smart contract development in TON.

However, currently, there is no built-in syntax highlighting support for Tact in the VIM code editor. This project aims to address this issue by creating a plugin or extension that enables Tact syntax highlighting with grammar support in VIM.

VIM highlight and grammar extension for the Tact should be implemented with support in the vim-plug.

References

Alternative highlights for Tact:

• JetBrains TON
• TACT Language VS Code Extension(opens in a new tab)
  Native grammar:
• Grammar

Estimate suggested reward

1500$ in TON

[liketurbo]

Can it be extended it to Vim/Neovim? ... Although Neovim support requires a tree-sitter implementation from #302

[novusnota]

@liketurbo Both Vim/Neovim can use regular expression-based grammars, but only Neovim has a valid option to use tree-sitter. So, it's probably better to just implement the latter, as it would also enable: GitHub-wise highlighting, other editors (I often use helix, for example).

But if needed, I can do one specifically for Vim.

[reveloper]

@liketurbo I'm not sure, I'll try to figure out what is required in the community. In general, I prefer to do this in separate ton-bonties.

[reveloper]

It seems that we can add support to Neovim too(with a separate ton bounty).
I would ask in this ton-bounty implement support only for the Vim.

[novusnota]

@reveloper Great. The Vim-specific implementation was in the private works of mine for a long time and it's near completed. Probably would take me a day or two to polish & publish it. Brb :)

[zenixls2]

Still modifying...
https://github.com/zenixls2/vim-tact
in case this is not approved, vim users could still get some kind of highlights on it.
This one doesn't 100% follow the vscode json.

[reveloper]

@novusnota Woah! What about grammar support, could you also implement this for Tact in VIM?

[novusnota]

@reveloper Do you mean autocomplete support? If so, then yes. And I'm aiming for full-coverage of grammar.ohm of Tact (essentially, it's actual formal specification), just like I did with the Prism.js grammars before.

Needs about a day of work, the incomplete (and a bit broken at times) example of @zenixls2 really motivates to make mine even better :)

[zenixls2]

Actually i made some references to both rust.vim and vim-solidity.
They have made some amazing work on supporting their syntaxes

[delovoyhomie]

@reveloper, I like your idea on add grammar support in addition to highlighting. After having a private conversation with you, $1500 seems totally acceptable, considering the complexity and the amount of work involved.

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