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I've always been excited by the idea of literate programming, and after having flirted with most of the other Javascript meta-languages, now use Coffeescript as my main language for both server-side (node.js) and client-side code. Is there currently a good syntax highlighting mode that properly displays .litcoffee files? I currently use Emacs with the coffee-mode major mode, but I don't think it's been updated yet.

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I'm not aware of an Emacs one being updated yet, although I think that someone's finished it for Vim.

If you want to be an open-source hero -- go ahead and do it yourself ;) It's mainly a matter of taking the Markdown package, and the CoffeeScript package, and pasting the latter into the former, right where the syntax rule for "code block" goes.

But that sounds haaaaaaard.

Do you have a link to the vim plugin you referenced?

https://github.com/mintplant/vim-literate-coffeescript

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