PowerShell highlighting in Vim

Well, I feel stupid. I just finally got syntax highlighting for PowerShell to work in Vim. I did a little Googling and found my solution in the PDF document linked form this article. Why you need an 8 page PDF to explain this is a completely different issue.

Turns out I was just missing some lines in my filetype.vim file. I already had the syntax, indent, and file type plugins, I just didn't think to add the code to activate them (for some reason I thought that stuff was loaded dynamically). However, page 6 of that PDF gave the answer:

" Powershell
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.ps1,*.psc1 setf ps1

I just added those lines to my filetype.vim, below the corresponding entries for Povray files, and voilà! Syntax highlighting now works.

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    Syntax highlighting?

    We don't need no steenking syntax highlighting! I told you I was hardcore! *GRIN*

    • Comment posted on Thursday 19 Feb 2009 at 7:19pm
    • By Dan

    Syntax highlighting is good...

    Syntax highlighting is great, I surrender my will as of this date.

    Or...na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING!

    (Link for those who didn't see that episode of the Simpsons: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F23)

    I used to be hardcore. Or, at least, I tried to be. Then I realized it was way too much work and I couldn't really pull it off anyway. So I went back to using a fancy IDE with syntax highlighting and intellisense. To each his own.

    Also needed

    In vim73, you also must edit the file: Vim73\Syntax\synload.vim,
    to add the line, "SynAu ps1"

    Without this, mine never would do syntax highlighting, despite copying all the files into correct places, and editing the filetype.vim

    • Comment posted on Friday 10 Aug 2012 at 1:30am
    • By mhz

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