vim-arduino-syntax

Love Arduino and Vim? Then use this syntax file and get syntax highlighting for Arduino functions in vim.

Features

• Arduino indent and syntax highlighting
• Support for libraries provided by the IDE
• Support for external libraries (on request)
• Autocompletion (using omnicomplete)

TODO

• Create a separate branch for Arduino 1.5
• Automatically include keywords from keywords.txt of User Arduino libraries

Installation

This plugin follows the standard runtime path structure, and as such it can be installed with a variety of plugin managers:

Pathogen

git clone https://github.com/sudar/vim-arduino-syntax

Remember to run :Helptags to generate help tags

NeoBundle

NeoBundle 'vim-arduino-syntax'

Vundle

Plugin 'sudar/vim-arduino-syntax'

:PluginInstall

Manual

• Copy syntax/arduino.vim file into your ~/.vim/syntax directory
• Copy ftdetect/arduino.vim file into your ~/.vim/ftdetect directory
• Copy indent/arduino.vim file into your ~/.vim/indent directory

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome in the form of pull requests with explanatory comments.

Credit

The syntax file was originally created by Johannes Hoff. I regenerated the file using his python script and added some additional changes on top of it.

The most recent file was generated by z3t0

Support for indent was added by KevinSjoberg

Other tools for Arduino and Vim

If you are using Arduino with Vim, then also checkout some of my other projects.

• Arduino snippets for Vim
• Arduino Make file