Vimscript codebox property

[guidomz]

Please consider adding vimscript as one of the options for codebox property.

[giuspen]

I did search on the internet but couldn't find an existing vimscript.lang definition file for gtksourceview
I don't have time to write it myself but if you do you can follow the syntax definition tutorials
Language Definition v2.0 Introduction
Language Definition v2.0 Reference
Language Definition v2.0 Tutorial
And for examples already bundled in cherrytree:
https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree/tree/master/language-specs
If you provide a simple valid version of vimscript.lang I will include it into next version.
You can test yourself after cloning cherrytree just put your file in the same folder of the others linked above and run ./build/cherrytree

[gitvectors]

Could this approach work at the other (complex) end of the spectrum.

The official and reference implementation of the Wolfram Language lies in Mathematica and associated online services. These are closed source. Wolfram Research has, however, released a parser of the language under the open source MIT License. The parser was originally developed in C++ but was rewritten in Rust in 2023.

https://www.wolfram.com/language/index.php.en

[giuspen]

Certainly @gitvectors it is possible to write syntax highlighting definition for every language.
Ideally you would start from the syntax highlighting (keywords and colours) definition for another toolkit and convert it into gtksourceview ".lang" file (which is an xml).