Adventures with Ruby

Update: Updated the syntax file, redownload it if you got it before December 19th 2007.

More news about my adventures with Selenium. It’s hot and juicy, so lot’s of exciting new things to do. I made a syntax highlighter for plain text stories in vim. Here’s how it looks:

To make it look like this, I adjusted the slate colorscheme and added my own story syntax file. Click Continue Reading to download the files and read how to install it.

Here is what you need to do:

1. Put the black-slate colorscheme file in /usr/share/vim/vim71/colors directory
2. Put the story syntax file in /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax directory
3. Append these lines to the end of /usr/share/vim/vim71/scripts.vim:

   if did_filetype()
     finish
   endif
   if getline(1) =~ "^Story:\s.*"
     setf story
   endif

4. Add these lines to your personal vimrc (~/.vimrc) or the systemwide vimrc file (/etc/vim/vimrc):

   set background=dark
   set tabstop=2   "please default all tabs to 2 spaces
   set shiftwidth=2
   set expandtab
   set number
   set smartindent
   set smarttab
   filetype plugin on
   filetype indent on
   colorscheme black-slate

5. Type your plain text stories, make sure every story file starts with ‘Story:’
   It won’t recognize it’s a plain text story right away, so first type ‘Story:’, save it and reopen it to get nice colours.

By the way, Arie has made a syntax highlighter for the google javascript syntax highlighter. Keep a look out on his blog too!

Caution: WordPress changes the quotes. In step 3 you’ll need normal quotes, not backticks.