VIM Syntax Highlighting

[Dark Ninja]

I was curious -- if I have a VIM syntax file that I want VIM to recognize (it's for a language that VIM does not have support for) where do I put that file? I tried putting it in the /usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax folder, but VIM does not seem to recognize it.


Thanks

[mrBen]

Nice How-To here (http://www.fleiner.com/vim/create.html)

It does it in a slightly different method to the one you are attempting. For your method, I think you may need to edit the syntax.vim file in the syntax directory. <edit> On second look - ignore this paragraph</edit>

[bigrigdriver]

See the Vim Reference Manual, especially the section on :syntax commands; how to enable; where the syntax is to be found; etc.

[fatTrav]

Originally posted by Dark Ninja
I was curious -- if I have a VIM syntax file that I want VIM to recognize (it's for a language that VIM does not have support for) where do I put that file? I tried putting it in the /usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax folder, but VIM does not seem to recognize it.


Thanks

just curious, for what language does vim not have support?

[Dark Ninja]

Originally posted by fatTrav
just curious, for what language does vim not have support?
Alloy -- it's a software modeling language.

http://alloy.mit.edu/

Check it out. Pretty sweet stuff.

[mrBen]

Presumably you are just using the Vim file they have on their site?

[Dark Ninja]

Sure am. I just couldn't figure out how to get VIM to recognize it. I'm going to try to follow all your suggestions right now.

:) Thanks