# vim-python

A fork of the official Vim syntax file for Python syntax.

This syntax file began with Neil Schemenauer's work in 2002.
Zvezdan Petkovic rewrote the file in 2009.
The full git history can be seen in the
[official vim repo](https://github.com/vim/vim/commits/master/runtime/syntax/python.vim).

I've rewritten the file with two goals in mind:

 + kill all doctest related highlighting, since that makes the pattern matching
   much more complicated and unreliable
 + re-bind or re-match triple-quoted strings such that they are rendered as
   comments

I've been working on this since 2017 but I recently decided to rebuild the git
history. An added side-benefit is that all syntax changes in Python since 2017
will now be included.