Syntax highlighting for elog files in Vim @ Freeminded.org

Syntax highlighting for elog files in Vim

This entry was posted by Skidder on Wednesday, 13 April, 2011 at

OMNeT++ can generate eventlogs. All really neat and such, but without proper syntax highlighting it is not very suitable for visual inspection.

I’ve created a simple syntax highlighter for elog files.

Installation is simple:

Copy elog.vim to ~/.vim/syntax/ (you may need to create this directory)
Add the following line ot your ~.vimrc: au BufNewFile,BufRead *.elog set syntax=elog

That’s all! Enjoy.

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Skidder

2011-08-07 at 10:53:31

Installing the complete vim is always a good idea. Given the small size of both (396KiB for vim-tiny and 971KiB for vim in the Debian repos) I wonder why on many distributions vim-tiny is the default – you hardly save any space and sacrifice a lot of functionality.
sylvainulg

2011-07-25 at 11:40:13

nevermind. installing vim rather than vim-tiny did the trick.
sylvainulg

2011-07-25 at 08:36:22

E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: au BufNewFile,BufRead *.elog set syntax=elog
VIM – Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Apr 16 2010 12:33:18)
Included patches: 1-330

(okay, I’m not a vim guru, not even a regular vim user, so there might be something obvious I’ve missed while following your instructions. If it works for you with that version, I bet it’s just my bad)