Can't find this wonderful work in the release?

[errael]

I looked at a build based on today's release and don't see vim9-syntax in there. I looked prompted by #13047 (which you commented on).

Is there a reason this isn't available. I'd be very unhappy if I wasn't using it.

[lacygoill]

I'm not a Vim developer, so I have no say in what enters the release. For example, I still have this unmerged PR. Similarly, this one was never merged, nor this one (at least not in its original form).

Besides, there are still a lot of bugs to fix (see the TODOs in the syntax plugin; there are a dozen more in my local notes). Also, I don't know about the performance (especially on a low-end machine); maybe some improvement could/should be made.

And it might be too colourful for some people:

It's nice, but, gosh, this is way too colourful for my personal tastes 😅

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[errael]

After vim9.1 is released, stuff on the backlog is supposed to be considered; I hope there's a process to categorize and prioritize (I guess there's labels, but more might be needed). The boundary between included plugins and those that need to downloaded, doesn't seem very smooth; but I don't really know.

I do almost no customization or plugin installation. I get something, like with color highlights, I use it as is (unless there's something really offensive); and indentation is probably the most important thing about vim9-syntax. I never learned vimscript, and have no idea how stock vim handles vim9script syntax.

If I can figure out how to disable the vim9-syntax (un-installing seems so brutal), out of curiosity I'll take a look at how plain vim handles vim9script.

[lacygoill]

If I can figure out how to disable the vim9-syntax (un-installing seems so brutal), out of curiosity I'll take a look at how plain vim handles vim9script.

I've just pushed a commit to let you use the legacy syntax plugin. In a given buffer where you want to make a test, you can set the buffer-local variable b:force_legacy_syntax to 1 or true; then, reload the buffer.

[lacygoill]

I've also just documented how to install the plugin as an optional package in the README.

To disable/enable it, packadd! vim9-syntax needs to be commented or uncommented in the vimrc.

[errael]

how to install the plugin as an optional package

Thank you very much for this. I've always been confused about the whole package thing. With this small example I am now beginning to get it. I's also convenient to use ;-)

And I had a note to inform you about extends after interface; but it just showed up.

As far as being so colorful, when I checked out the regular, I missed the reliable/complete typing info and multi-line lambdas. And vim9-syntax is more nuanced, consider export.

If you want to bring it up on the dev list, I'd be happy to comment there.