Re: Re: VIM syntax highlighting in test scripts

Or, if you have filetype autodetection turned on, you can use:

autocmd BufRead *.t set filetype=perl

This will trigger the FileType event which is used to load syntax files, etc. See :help filetype for details.

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Re^3: VIM syntax highlighting in test scripts by electrosphere (Beadle) on Jan 19, 2010 at 12:42 UTC
On Debian Lenny, it appears that modeline is off by default in vim. You can put the following in your local .vimrc to enable: `set syntax=on set modeline set modelines=2` [download] modelines=2 appears to be the number of lines from the top of file to scan for modelines. Then put this on the 2nd line of your source: `# vim: syntax=perl` [download] You can manually set the syntax scheme in the vim session with `:set syntax=perl` [download] Links for more info: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Modeline_magic http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27modeline%27	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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On Debian Lenny, it appears that modeline is off by default in vim. You can put the following in your local .vimrc to enable:

set syntax=on
set modeline
set modelines=2
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# vim: syntax=perl
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:set syntax=perl
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