On 06/04/13 13:58, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Tony Mechelynck wrote:
When I try to view a *.rdf file, for instance the attached install.rdf
from the ChatZilla extension to Firefox or SeaMonkey, Vim sets "redif"
filetype and displays everything after the XML header in black on red
(highlight group redifIncorrectBeginningOfFile, linking to Error). In
order to clear the error (and since there is no specific syntax for
RDF/XML), I have to set the filetype manually to XML.
Strangely enough, there is no syntax script for redif: all syntax
commands for that syntax are in the filetype-plugin, which is incorrect
procedure by Vim standards. In fact, AFAICT,
$VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/redif.vim is actually a syntax script, not a
filetype-plugin, and ought to be in syntax/ instead of in ftplugin/.
Sorry, somehow I managed to put the file in the wrong directory.
What should I do? What should other users like me do in order to have
their RDF files correctly identified as XML-serialized Resource
Description Framework manifests and not as whatever "redif" might be?
Apparently your .rdf file is not redif. So we need a better way to
detect the filetype.
It appears that redif uses # comments, while your .rdf file looks like
XML, thus lots of <>. That could be used.
Yes, RDF/XML (as described in the Wikipedia and W3C links in my previous
post) can be regarded as a subtype of XML. In particular it starts with
<?xml (a UTF-8 BOM might be acceptable before that, I haven't boned up
that far on the standard) and it uses the same <!-- comments --> as XML
et al. The corresponding MIME type is application/rdf+xml
changeset: 4587:a079ef0ce001
user: Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>
date: Sat Apr 06 17:26:26 2013 +0200
files: runtime/doc/todo.txt runtime/filetype.vim
runtime/ftplugin/redif.vim runtime/syntax/redif.vim
description:
Move redif syntax file to the right directory.
Disable recognizing .rdf as a redif file.
Thanks Bram! After the update, the file is recognised as ft=xml, which
is the best we can do AFAIK.
BTW, it seems that "make install" over an existing installation of Vim
doesn't remove files which have been removed (or moved away) on
Mercurial. I've deleted $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/redif.vim manually. (The
script still exists as $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/redif.vim)
Maybe one of these days I should do
rm -Rvf /usr/local/share/vim/vim73
make install
Best regards,
Tony.
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