Re: New dircolors syntax file with on-the-fly colour highlighting

Hi tooth!

On So, 18 Aug 2013, tooth pik wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:15:51PM +1200, Jan Larres wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > I have rewritten the dircolors syntax file to be able to highlight the
> > specified colours on-the-fly, similar to what the various CSS/HTML
> > colour highlighting scripts do. Since it was necessary to use
> > autocommands for this, which is a bit unusual for syntax files, Bram
> > suggested that I post it here first to see if anyone complains. If not
> > it's going to replace the current script in the Vim distribution. So
> > please let me know if you find any problems with it.
>
> forgive me for not paying enough attention to earlier discussions but
> I seem to not know how to test this -- pray tell, what filetype would
> a buffer want to be in order to take advantage of this colorscheme, or
> I should probably call it a syntax
>
> say for example I had a buffer created via
>
> setlocal noswapfile
> setlocal buftype=nofile
> setlocal bufhidden=hide
> r!ls -algG --group-directories-first
>
> I've got a home grown [much simplified] version of netrw that would be
> a lot sexier if I could color it up with a set ft=? command
>
> I tried dir, directory, and netrw -- only netrw made any difference,
> but it didn't recognize the executables as such, just the symlinks
>
> or do I misunderstand what dircolors syntax is for?

I think this is for dircolors files, e.g. dircolors -p >~/.dircolors

The .dircolors file should readily be recognized of the correct type.

regards,
Christian
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Rob Otter

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