I’ve been willing to make this happen for quite some time but I didn’t take the time to do it. I think we should keep them under the rust-lang organization, though.
+1. Having to go through bors running the entire compiler test suite to land a change to these files delays both the change itself and the rest of the bors queue, for no benefit.
Arch linux nightly packages install the highlighting files into appropriate places, so installing rust-nightly-bin will also get you highlighting in supported editors.
I guess the PKGBUILD file could download the editor files from the new repos.
Nope, rollups are for small things that are likely not going to cause conflicts and that need to go through the test suite. Having these patches going through the test suite, although harmless, is useless.
Could we encourage other editor integration repos to move into rust-lang? I’m thinking Sublime Text in particular (because I use it) but I’m sure there are others.
Maintainer of rust-nightly-bin here. It was never my intention to provide syntax files, although I may have done so inadvertently at some point. I think it's nicer letting people manage their own editor configuration, given the plethora of different methods (Vundle/Pathogen/whatever).
I like this change, feels good putting Plugin 'rust-lang/rust.vim' in my .vimrc.