| Re: IDL and VI ; Color highlighting [message #37443] |
Wed, 17 December 2003 11:31 |
Karthik
Messages: 10
Registered: December 2003
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That did it! 'apt-get install vim' and ':syntax on' solved the problem.
Thanks, Mike.
Michael Wallace wrote:
>> Does anyone know if it is possible to use syntax highlighting
>> while editing IDL files using Vi (or Vim). If so, how does one go
>> about doing it?
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> Yes, using vim. There may be basic highlighting in vi, but vim is
> really what you want. To turn on syntax highlighting, you only need to
> do ':syntax on' (without quotes) from within vim and it should
> automagically recognize the file type and highlight appropriately. If
> that doesn't work, try ':cal SetSyn("idlang")' (without quotes) instead.
> If that fails too, then you probably don't have the IDL syntax file
> installed on your system. On my systems, the IDL syntax file is
> /usr/share/vim/vim??/syntax/idlang.vim where ?? is the version number of
> vim. If you can't locate the file, just upgrade vim. Not only will you
> have a better vim, but I know that it comes with the IDL syntax file
> already in place.
>
> HTH,
>
> Mike W
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| Re: IDL and VI ; Color highlighting [message #37445 is a reply to message #37443] |
Wed, 17 December 2003 11:18  |
Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003
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> Does anyone know if it is possible to use syntax highlighting while
> editing IDL files using Vi (or Vim). If so, how does one go about doing it?
Yes, using vim. There may be basic highlighting in vi, but vim is
really what you want. To turn on syntax highlighting, you only need to
do ':syntax on' (without quotes) from within vim and it should
automagically recognize the file type and highlight appropriately. If
that doesn't work, try ':cal SetSyn("idlang")' (without quotes) instead.
If that fails too, then you probably don't have the IDL syntax file
installed on your system. On my systems, the IDL syntax file is
/usr/share/vim/vim??/syntax/idlang.vim where ?? is the version number of
vim. If you can't locate the file, just upgrade vim. Not only will you
have a better vim, but I know that it comes with the IDL syntax file
already in place.
HTH,
Mike W
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