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Vim 8.1 released

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Fewer external plugins needed to use a shell within Vim anymore!

 

The main new feature of Vim 8.1 is support for running a terminal in a Vim window. This builds on top of the asynchronous features added in Vim 8.0. The terminal window can be used for many purposes, here are a few examples:

* Run a command, such as “make”, while continuing to edit in other windows. The progress of the command can be observed, the terminal window is continuously updated.
* Run a shell where you can execute a series of commands.
* Use the new terminal debugger plugin for debugging inside Vim. This is especially useful over an ssh connection, when opening other terminals is not possible or impractical. I use this to fix problems in Vim when travelling.

The terminal window is also used in tests, to grab a screenshot and compare it with the expected state. This allows for testing interactive actions, such as the popup menu.

https://www.vim.org/vim-8.1-released.php

Vim syntax highlighting for EDK2 sources

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If you use Vim, there are a few projects with syntax highlighting support for TianoCore sources and config files. A recent one, from this year:
https://github.com/fedorov7/vim-uefi
Two others from 2013, with different features from above one:
https://github.com/0xeuclid/UEFI_VIM_Syntax
https://github.com/0xeuclid/vim_for_UEFI

If you use Visual Slick Edit, one firmware engineer at Dell has created some files for EDK-II support:
http://www.basicinputoutput.com/2015/05/syntax-highlighting-for-edkii-files-dec.html

I found no support found for Emacs, perhaps the FSF anti-UEFI campaign has impacted this? I don’t know of any EDK-II support in any other open source programmer’s editors or IDEs.

Besides highlighting C/assembly sources, EDK2 has 7 different build/config files, much more complex than a single Makefile to deal with. The specs for these files are listed below; it would be nice if you spend time in EDK2 sources, if your editor helps you understand these formats.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/edk2/files/Specifications/