Matthew Turland » Vim http://matthewturland.com Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:29:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Updating PHP Syntax Highlighting for vim on Ubuntu http://matthewturland.com/2009/03/25/php-syntax-highlighting-update-for-vim-on-ubuntu/ http://matthewturland.com/2009/03/25/php-syntax-highlighting-update-for-vim-on-ubuntu/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:09:36 +0000 Matthew Turland This is just a quick post, mostly a "note to self" so I don’t forget how to do this. If you were curious, it was the result of indirect inspiration from these Become a Bash Ninja slides.

If you’re running Ubuntu 8.10 as your desktop OS, have vim installed, and use it for PHP development, you may not be aware that the PHP syntax file that comes bundled with vim is a bit outdated. There’s a fairly simple way to update it, though. In fact, it’s doable with two simple commands from Terminal.

cd /usr/share/vim71;
wget -O - http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=8651 | sudo tar -zxv
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