created by

Krzysztof Wrzalik

script type

utility

description

While browsing Vim documentation I encountered a nice tip about how to get highlithing of user-defined types. I decided to extend it a little to also support types defined elsewhere, that the source file may use (i.e. included files). The script is written in Python and also requires CPP preprocessor (tested with 3.3 and 3.4) as well as exuberant ctags program.

install details

Download the script, make it executable, then put it to some directory in your PATH variable. Add the following lines to .vimrc file: " load the types.vim highlighting file, if it exists autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.{c,h,C,H,cc,hh,cpp,hpp,cxx,hxx} let fname = expand('<afile>:p:h') . '/types.vim' autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.{c,h,C,H,cc,hh,cpp,hpp,cxx,hxx} if filereadable(fname) autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.{c,h,C,H,cc,hh,cpp,hpp,cxx,hxx}   exe 'so ' . fname autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.{c,h,C,H,cc,hh,cpp,hpp,cxx,hxx} endif Next, cd to the directory with your source files, and invoke the script on files you would like to generate highlighting for, e.g. gentypes.py foo.c bar.c It should leave types.vim file in the directory. The next time you edit these files Vim should highlight types defined in them and in the files they include.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
gentypes.py	0.1.1	2005-03-08	6.0	Krzysztof Wrzalik	Slightly changed to allow -I/path/to/includes, so that nonstandard locations can be used. Example usage: gentypes.py -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 gtk-demo.c
gentypes.py	0.1	2005-03-08	6.0	Krzysztof Wrzalik	Initial upload

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