[GAP Forum] syntax highlighting in vim

[Frank Lübeck]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 09:40:56AM +0300, Robert Heffernan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anybody use Frank Lubeck's syntax highlighting file for vim when
> editing gap code?
> 
> I have followed the instructions here:
> http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/ForumArchive/Gamble.1/Greg.1/Re__Edit.1/1.html

Dear Bob, dear Forum,

This is a quite old mail, and you could also access this information
in the file GAPROOT/etc/README.vim-utils of your GAP installation or
by asking the GAP help:

gap> ?vim

> and some things seem to work fine (automatic folding and completion)
> but there does not seem to be any highlighting going on.  There are
> certainly several lines in the gap.vim file that seem to intend to
> change to colour etc. of various bits but it's not working.
> 
> Does anybody else have this problem?  Can anybody think of something
> that I might be doing wrong?  Syntax highlighting works fine for other
> things (latex, for instance) so I don't think it's something wrong
> with my installation of vim.

You found the solution yourself. Indeed, the default configuration of
vim has changed in some version, and now the 'gap.vim' file must
be copied to:  ~/.vim/syntax/gap.vim

Thanks for the reminder, I will adjust the documentation for the 
next GAP release.

Except for this small detail vim is very stable, and I didn't change
anything in the vim-files for GAP for a long time. 

Bill Allombert suggested to include the files in the vim distribution.
I didn't do this because there is already some other syntax file for
files with .g extension.

Best regards,
   Frank

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