Vim Syntax Highlighting

[CaKiwi]

I am trying to create a very simple syntax highlighting file for vim. Highlighting is working for standard files such as .vim files

Example file t.pp

LN1 = LINE/0,0,2,0 $$ COMMENT
LN2 = LINE/PARLEL,LN1,XLARGE,1 % COMMENT
$$ COMMENT
% COMMENT

I want the word LINE to be one color and the words PARLEL and XLARGE to be another color. There are more words of each type which I want to be able to add. Everything after $$ or % is a comment which could be a third color.

Any help greatly appreciated.

CaKiwi

 

[Annihilannic]

Have a look at /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/README.TXT (or the equivalent for your version of vim), which gives you some clues about where to start.

Annihilannic
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[CaKiwi]

Thanks for the response, Annihilannic.

I think the piece I'm missing is how to get vim to recognize a new file type. Fortran has a few of the same key words (if, endif, do, etc) so I copied the fortran syntax file as a pp syntax file but nothing was hightlighted.

Any help greatly appreciated.

CaKiwi

 

[Annihilannic]

See :help mysyntaxfile in VIM for the steps you need to follow. This leads on to :help myfiletypefile which tells you how to go about recognising a new file type.

Annihilannic
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[CaKiwi]

The part I was missing was to put my file type in the filetype.vim file (in /usr/share/vim/vimcurrent on my system). I found it by searching for f77 in the vim directory. It must be mentioned in the doc somewhere, but I didn't find it, although reading doc is not my forte.

CaKiwi