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Syntax coloring with Vim and Fish-Shell

What is the best editor for fish scripts? I mean an editor which can properly highlight, indent and syntax check.

I found the vim-fish project, but I am still scratching my head as to how to install it locally.

Solution

  • You just copy all those files and directories inside the repository into ~/.vim. However, the recommended way is to use something like vundle or pathogen

    For vundle:

    Run these commands:

    mkdir -p ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/gmarik/vundle.git ~/.vim/bundle/vundle
touch ~/.vimrc

    Then add this to your ~/.vimrc

    set nocompatible
filetype off

set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/vundle/
call vundle#rc()

Bundle 'gmarik/vundle'
Bundle 'dag/vim-fish'

filetype plugin indent on

    Next time you launch vim you can run the command :BundleInstall to get vim-fish installed.

    If you want this to work with funced and other potential scripts that should use the fish-syntax you can add something like this to ~/.vim/ftdetect/fish.vim:

    au BufNewFile,BufRead fish_funced set ft=fish