Re: Modules for vim/emacs

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:29:00PM -0500, Ron wrote:
> In the latest revision of my sample script, I added modelines to the top:
> http://nmap.org/svn/docs/sample-script.nse
>
> Specifically:
> -- -*- mode: lua -*-
> -- vim: set filetype=lua :
> -- The preceding lines should be left intact to help vim/emacs do syntax
> -- highlighting
>
> Basically, they tell vim/emacs that it's a lus file, despite the
> extension being .nse. The first thing I do when I start working on NSE
> on a new box is update my vim syntax file appropriately, but I'm
> guessing that not everybody knows how to do that so having a hint to
> the editor that it's a lua file could be handy. 

I've tried adding this to a ~/.vimrc:

au BufNewRead,BufRead *.nse set filetype=lua

That doesn't solve the problem of having to do it on every new machine,
but it's less invasive than editing the syntax file.

David Fifield
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