Benjamin,

If I was to start cobbling together a gm2 extensions syntax file would you be interested in hosting it here or would you prefer it just be included directly in Vim? I'd be happy to maintain it.

Thanks,
Doug

G'day Benjamin,

I just noticed the following comment in one of the Vim syntax files.

The m2Base10Num pattern is not a string literal. The quotes in this case are just pattern delimiters, any character can be used. So, if you wish, it can be split over multiple lines using a normal line continuation and insert comments with a leading "\ sequence (trailing space required - see :help line-continuation-comment).

syn match m2Base10Num
  \ /\(\(0[bux]\@!\|[1-9]\)[0-9]*\('[0-9]\+\)*\)
  "\ a comment
  \\(\.[0-9]\+\('[0-9]\+\)*\(e[+-]\?[0-9]\+\('[0-9]\+\)*\)\?\)\?/

Alternatively you could use something like the following to interleave comments as described.

" a comment for part 1
let part1 = '\(\(0[bux]\@!\|[1-9]\)[0-9]*\(''[0-9]\+\)*\)'
" a comment for part 2
let part2 = '\(\.[0-9]\+\(''[0-9]\+\)*\(e[+-]\?[0-9]\+\(''[0-9]\+\)*\)\?\)\?'

exe $"syn match m2Base10Num2 /{part1}{part2}/"

Obviously, neither of these are as nice as Perl's x modifier but maybe they're of some use to you.

Regards,
Doug