If you’ve used haml-coffee templates, you might be amazed by much they look like Ruby Haml templates.
After all, Haml is Haml, and Ruby and Coffescript share some syntax - notably the use of @ to refer to instance variables.
As a result, Vim syntax highlighting for .haml templates works great with .hamlc templates.
To get the highlighting, just tell Vim to treat .hamlc as .haml. Here’s the snippet to add to your .vimrc:
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.hamlc set ft=haml
Now you’ll get syntax highlighting that looks just like this:
Yep, that’s Coffeescript in a Javascript Template. In this example it’s very similar to what a Ruby, server-side counterpart would look like.
Among other things, these templates make it easy to mentally switch between server-side and client-side templates.