Getting Vim to recognise files a PHP

Aug

2008

Submitted by Nick on Mon, 18th Aug 2008 - 14:48 and has been commented on 3 times.

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vim, programming, linux, geek and drupal

I just finished upgrading a server to Ubuntu 8.04 which came with Vim 7.1 rather than 6.3 on the older server. It seems 7.1 does things slightly differently to 6.3.

In 6.3 I could create ~/.vim/filetype.vim and in there define a line as follows:

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.module,*.install,*.theme setf php

However in 7.1, it looks like a line similar to this has to go into ~/.vimrc instead…

au BufReadPost *.module,*.install,*.theme set syntax=php

This tip took me about half an hour to find… Hopefully it'll help someone else programming Drupal with Vim figure out how to get modules, themes and install files to associate with the PHP filetype (specifically for highlighting).

3 Comments

The most recent comment was on Mon, 23rd Feb 2009 - 18:24

I have a similar

Dec

2008

Submitted by Marius Scurtescu (not verified) on Tue, 30th Dec 2008 - 19:38

I have a similar configuration in ~/.vim/filetype.vim and it works fine, but it is slightly different from yours.

Here it is:

augroup filetypedetect
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.module setfiletype php
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.install setfiletype php
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.inc setfiletype php
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.info setfiletype dosini
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.test setfiletype php
augroup END

Your 7.1 Fix works is 6.3

Feb

2009

Submitted by pjsz (not verified) on Thu, 5th Feb 2009 - 21:13

I pasted your 7.1 fix in .vimrc and it works. vim -version is 6.3. Thanks

thank you.

Feb

2009

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 23rd Feb 2009 - 18:24

thank you.

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