[ILUG] VIM "on the fly" syntax checking?

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:17:47 +0100
  | From: Pádraig Brady <P at draigBrady.com>
  | 
  | Justin Mason wrote:
  | > Quite a few IDEs nowadays offer the option of quietly running
  | > syntax checks "in the background", while you edit a document.
  | > [ ... ]  Does anyone know of a way to do this in VIM?
  |
  |[ ... ]  I know of no background compilation support for vim,
  | and anyway I would see it as a hindrance.  Syntax highlighting
  | is more than enough checking for me.

 Apropos of nothing, I (usually) find syntax
 highlighting a hindrance.

 The vim(1) ‘:set showmatch’ feepture I have
 learned to like.  However, time cube colours,
 poor contrast, the edge cases (problems), and
 so on with syntax highlighting (and not just
 in ‘vim’) have kept me off it.

cheers!
	-blf-
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