Velocity Syntax for VIM

by Hsiaoming Yang

Who need this ?

People who:

  • are using VIM
  • have to deal with velocity
  • find the original one on vim.org is not good enough
  • want to have a better syntax

Preview

A preview with my slate3 theme:

velocity syntax for vim

Install

If you are using pathogen, GREAT! Or even better with Vundle. If not, try to !

Non-Pathogen, non-vundle User:

git clone git://github.com/lepture/vim-velocity.git
cp vim-velocity/syntax/velocity.vim ~/.vim/syntax/

Pathogen User:

git submodule add git://github.com/lepture/vim-velocity.git ~/.vim/bundle/velocity

Vundle User:

Add in your vimrc:

Bundle 'lepture/vim-velocity'

And run command in vim: :BundleInstall.

Configuration

Add to your vimrc:

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.vm set ft=html syntax=velocity

For vimmer in alipay, add this:

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.vm set ft=html fileencoding=gbk syntax=velocity

Attention

There is one more keyword cmsparse which alipay's sofaMVC contains in the syntax file. If you are not comfortable with this, you may remove it by yourself. But I don't think it will bother you.

How to write syntax

It's not that hard, but you should keep in mind that vim use a magic regex, which really sucks.

It is not a post on this topic, all you need is :help syntax . Good luck!

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