egberts/vim-syntax-nftables
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Vim/Neovim syntax highlighter for nftables — highlights configs, catches typos, and makes editing firewall rules easier.
4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2025-08-07 · latest 2025-11-14
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…statements, and under 5ms rendering. This is a purely deterministic LL(1) full semantic parser. https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-nftables Skip the release (I cannot delete it), go full repo clone. Is it ready? Yes, almost entirely,…
comment by egberts1 · 2025-11-14 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) -
…Before that, I completed arguably the 2nd largest syntax highlighting: ISC Bind9 (most versions) https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-nftables https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-bind-named My secret weapon was using a smaller…
comment by egberts1 · 2025-10-13 · in Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) -
…me, the expert so that others may benefit. - https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-bind-named - https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-nftables
comment by egberts1 · 2025-10-11 · in Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at -
…semantic action pathways LL(1) syntax highlighting here (83% done, extreme alpha stage https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-nftables ) ChatGPT got the basic terminology such as Vimscript’s terminology like group name, regex, match,…
comment by egberts1 · 2025-08-07 · in Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?