Python syntax highlighting script for Vim
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About
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Enhanced version of the original Python syntax highlighting script. Based on
``python.vim`` from Vim 6.1 distribution by Neil Schemenauer (nas at python dot
ca). Check also `python.vim page on vim.org
<http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=790>`_.
Please use the following channels for reporting bugs, offering suggestions or
feedback:
- python.vim issue tracker: https://github.com/hdima/python-syntax/issues
- Email: Dmitry Vasiliev (dima at hlabs.org)
- Send a message or follow me for updates on Twitter: `@hdima
<https://twitter.com/hdima>`__
Features
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Changes from the original ``python.vim`` are:
- Added support for Python 3 syntax highlighting
- Added ``:Python2Syntax`` and ``:Python3Syntax`` commands which allow to
switch between Python 2 and Python 3 syntaxes respectively without
reloads/restarts
- Updated strings highlighting
- Enhanced special symbols highlighting inside strings
- Enhanced highlighting of numeric constants
- Added optional highlighting for %-formatting inside strings
- Added highlighting for magic comments: source code encoding and #!
(executable) strings
- Added highlighting for new exceptions and builtins
- Added highlighting for doctests
- Added highlighting for new ``@decorator`` syntax introduced in Python 2.4a2
- Added highlighting for the following errors:
- invalid symbols in source file
- mixing spaces and tabs
- invalid numeric constants
- invalid %-formatting inside strings
- invalid variable names
- trailing spaces (triggered by the ``python_highlight_space_errors`` option)
Some of these features was later backported into the original ``python.vim``.
How to install
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The easiest installation method is to place `syntax/python.vim
<https://github.com/hdima/python-syntax/blob/master/syntax/python.vim>`_ script
into your ``~/.vim/syntax/`` directory.
You can also use `Pathogen <https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen>`_ or `Vundle
<https://github.com/gmarik/vundle>`_ plugin managers in which case you can
install the whole `python.vim repository
<https://github.com/hdima/python-syntax>`_ into the corresponding plugins
directory.
Script options
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There are two commands to enable or disable an option:
``:let OPTION_NAME = 1``
Enable option
``:let OPTION_NAME = 0``
Disable option
For example to enable all syntax highlighting features you can place the
following command in your ``~/.vimrc`` script::
let python_highlight_all = 1
Option and commands to select Python version
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
``python_version_2``
Enable highlighting for Python 2 (Python 3 highlighting is enabled by
default). Also can be set as a local to buffer ``b:python_version_2``
variable.
The following local to buffer commands can be used to switch between two
highlighting modes:
``:Python2Syntax``
Switch to Python 2 highlighting mode
``:Python3Syntax``
Switch to Python 3 highlighting mode
Options used by the script
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``python_highlight_builtins``
Highlight builtin functions and objects
``python_highlight_builtin_objs``
Highlight builtin objects only
``python_highlight_builtin_funcs``
Highlight builtin functions only
``python_highlight_exceptions``
Highlight standard exceptions
``python_highlight_string_formatting``
Highlight ``%`` string formatting
``python_highlight_string_format``
Highlight syntax of ``str.format`` syntax
``python_highlight_string_templates``
Highlight syntax of ``string.Template``
``python_highlight_indent_errors``
Highlight indentation errors
``python_highlight_space_errors``
Highlight trailing spaces
``python_highlight_doctests``
Highlight doc-tests
``python_print_as_function``
Highlight ``print`` statement as function for Python 2
``python_highlight_file_headers_as_comments``
Highlight shebang and coding headers as comments
``python_highlight_all``
Enable all the options above. *NOTE: This option don't override any
previously set options*
``python_slow_sync``
Can be set to 0 for slow machines
Contributors
------------
List of the contributors in alphabetical order:
- `Andrea Riciputi <https://github.com/mrrech>`_
- Anton Butanaev
- `Antony Lee <https://github.com/anntzer>`_
- Caleb Adamantine
- `David Briscoe <https://github.com/idbrii>`_
- `Elizabeth Myers <https://github.com/Elizafox>`_
- `Ihor Gorobets <https://github.com/iho>`_
- `Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <https://github.com/ashemedai>`_
- `John Eikenberry <https://github.com/eikenb>`_
- `Joongi Kim <https://github.com/achimnol>`_
- `Marc Weber <https://github.com/MarcWeber>`_
- `Pedro Algarvio <https://github.com/s0undt3ch>`_
- `Victor Salgado <https://github.com/mcsalgado>`_
- `Will Gray <https://github.com/graywh>`_
- `Yuri Habrusiev <https://github.com/yuriihabrusiev>`_
