Comments on: VIM: ActionScript and MXML syntax files

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:58:58 +0000

And I second Geoff's comment about actionscript inside a CDATA in a MXML file being syntax highlighted differently than in an actionscript file. It looks wierd…

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:57:04 +0000

Patch: Let syntax files be stored in ~/.vim/syntax

I'm sure if I put the syntax files under /usr/share they'd work fine. But when I put them under ~/.vim/syntax, I got this error:

Error detected while processing /home/pvm/.vim/syntax/mxml.vim:
line 302:
E484: Can't open file /home/pvm/.vim/syntax/dtd.vim

This patch fixed that for me, allowing me to put the syntax files in my user .vim dir:
> svn diff
Index: mxml.vim
===================================================================
--- mxml.vim (revision 1527)
+++ mxml.vim (working copy)
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@

syn keyword xmlDocTypeKeyword contained DOCTYPE PUBLIC SYSTEM
syn region xmlInlineDTD contained matchgroup=xmlDocTypeDecl start="[" end="]" contains=@xmlDTD
-syn include @xmlDTD :p:h/dtd.vim
+runtime ! syntax/dtd.vim
unlet b:current_syntax

By: queria

queria — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:14:08 +0000

Hi Abdul.

Its great … thanks very much!

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:10:17 +0000

@Sam Thanks. I know, I also wanted a VIM plugin for Eclipse and realized there are couple of such plugins, not really stable and usable. Then I realized, Eclipse is different thing and while using existing VIM plugins for Eclipse, my experience has not been good. It’s like trying to fit something meant for different world into something else.

However, I would see when one appears.

-abdul

By: Sam Wilson

Sam Wilson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:21:32 +0000

Very nice stuff, I’m going to try to implement these files today. My dream would be a vim plugin that matches Eclipse (FDT). There is a Ruby vim plugin that allows the functionality of clicking on a class name and doing some key command and you go to that class’s definition. That’s exactly what I’d like to see here, maybe I can learn enough to make that happen.

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:33:57 +0000

@vuthecuong I need to check that and probably fix it.
@Martin I would check that too.
Thanks for update.
-abdul

By: vuthecuong

vuthecuong — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:14:40 +0000

It works very well in mxml file with embedded actionscript functions.
However, when I indent above mxml file (gg=G), the mxml parts indented well but the actionscript funtions code did not being indented at all.
Does anyone as same as me?
If indent well, this is perfect
Could anyone tell me how can I indent mxml file with embedded actionscript code?
thanks and regards

By: Burteen

Burteen — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:59:59 +0000

This is awesome

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:50:44 +0000

Is there a way to enable/add folding on the actionscript syntax file?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:52:40 +0000

Incredibly helpful – thanks!
For Actionscript 3 within an mxml file script tag, the syntax coloring is different than actionscript in a standalone *.as file – is that your intention (or maybe my environment is messed up ?

By: Devon

Devon — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:57:09 +0000

Quick suggestion on implementing them:
Add this to your $HOME/.vimrc:
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.mxml set filetype=mxml
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.as set filetype=actionscript
The instructions that are linked to don’t include the mxml line and they don’t work when you’re creating a new file!

By: DLikhten

DLikhten — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:00:14 +0000

You rule!!!!
This is great!
Now all we need is to modify eclipse java editor to take in syntax from actionscript and eclipse jsp editor to handle MXML (after all it is just like JSPs) and we got a semi-working ide