On 2012-03-05, danabble wrote:
> I want to make some changes to the fortran.vim syntax coloring scheme.
>
> It seems reasonable to assume that there is some way to ask vim to
> look into a directory in my home for fortran.vim before looking in
> $VINRUNTIME/syntax/fortran.vim.
There is. Vim searches runtime directories in the order given in
'runtimepath'. By default, it will search your ~/.vim/syntax before
$VIMRUNTIME/syntax, and it will search your ~/.vim/after/syntax
last. See
:help 'runtimepath'
> The changes I want to make are:
> * start the past-column-72 reverse-highlight warning at column 138.
> * do the past-column-highlight on other highlight words.
> (right now, a highlit word or number hanging over the boundary is
> NOT reverse-lit,
> ultimately resulting in an avoidable compiler error.)
>
> I have located the system fortran.vim file, and I know how to make the
> changes above, but making changes to system files is not a good idea
> (even if I had privilege).
>
> I already have a ~/.vim/ftplugin/fortran.vim file which contains
>
> let s:extfname = expand("%:e") " get the current file's extension.
> if s:extfname ==? "f" " if extension is .f
> let fortran_fixed_source=1 " then assume fixed form source
> unlet! fortran_free_source " and never use free source.
> let fortran_do_enddo=1 " also, indent do loops.
> endif
>
> Any help is appreciated!
If you want to _replace_ the system file with your own, simply copy
$VIMRUNTIME/syntax/fortran.vim to ~/.vim/syntax/fortran.vim and make
your changes in the latter. There are two bits of code in that
file,
if exists("b:current_syntax")
finish
endif
and
let b:current_syntax = "fortran"
that prevent it from being loaded twice for the same buffer and that
prevent it from being loaded at all if your
~/.vim/syntax/fortran.vim contains the same code.
See
:help 44.11
:help 44.12
Regards,
Gary
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