CUDA syntax highlighting for vim

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This is a simple configuration file to add CUDA syntax highlighting to Vim.

Add the attached file in the syntax subdirectory of your vim installation ( under linux, it should be in /usr/share/vim/vim*/syntax, under Windows it should be under C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70\syntax).

The file should be renamed cu.vim.

You can modify/create the .vimrc file in your home directory adding this line:

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cu set ft=cu

or you can add it for all the users by modifying the file filetype.vim in the vim directory, adding these 2 lines:

" CUDA 

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cu   setf cu

cu.vim.txt (17.3 KB)

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Many thanks!

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I had just renamed cpp.vim and added the keywords. I’m sure this is better. Thanks!

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Wonderful! Thanks very much, it works well for me. I love using Vim for CUDA.

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What does au do? I can’t get this to work …

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This works for my Ubuntu 8.10:

First, I install vim by “sudo apt-get install vim”. Otherwise, the syntax directory won’t be there.

Then create .vimrc file in my home directory and add the following:

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cu set ft=cu

syntax on

Finally, vim can display the CUDA syntax highlighting.

Hope this helps.

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Awesome, thank you!

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hacky kate syntax highlighting file at [url=“http://cobol.cs.berkeley.edu:8008/gatoatigrado/public_repos/index.cgi/kate_syntax/”]http://cobol.cs.berkeley.edu:8008/gatoatig...gi/kate_syntax/[/url]

Maybe it will save someone 2 minutes :) place in ~/.kde4/share/apps/katepart/syntax (create the directory if necessary).

Hacks include Jinja 2 “@” for commands, and a function convention I made up: “_s” for sync’d, “_rs” for presync’d, and “_os” for postsync’d. Feel free to tear them out: [url=“http://cobol.cs.berkeley.edu:8008/gatoatigrado/public_repos/index.cgi/kate_syntax/diff/21b08b756f5d/cuda.xml”]http://cobol.cs.berkeley.edu:8008/gatoatig...756f5d/cuda.xml[/url], [url=“http://cobol.cs.berkeley.edu:8008/gatoatigrado/public_repos/index.cgi/kate_syntax/rev/22896b7e4635”]http://cobol.cs.berkeley.edu:8008/gatoatig...ev/22896b7e4635[/url]. I’ll be happy to post any changes.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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I believe cuda syntax highlighting is shipping with vim for a while now.

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It seems to syntax highlight GridDim, but isnt it supposed to be gridDim? It is easy to fix though.

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the file doesn’t higihtlight cudaErrorInvalidValue, but that is also easy to fix.

edit: I see the comment that says not all error codes are included, but it is still inconvenient.

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Thanks a lot. Good piece of work.

I prefer using ~/.vim/syntax directory to n /usr/share/vim/vim*/syntax one for Your vim script. It also runs very well.

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Can you describe in detail how you put cu.vim into your local directory ~/.vim/syntax and set it accordingly in .vimrc ? :unsure:

I face the problem that I don’t have the root power to put the file or rename the file in the public directory like /usr/share/vim/vim*/syntax

Thank you very much.

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hey, could you post it somewhere again or upload the file to the forum? thanks in advice

antonio Lucas

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This works great for syntax highlighting. However, it appears I lose the ability to use folds with foldmethod=syntax. Do others see the same problem? Or can it be an issue of my configuration? I use above line to enable it for .cu files, but maybe it interferes with other settings of my rather massive .vimrc? If not, is there a workaround to enable folding? I’m not sufficiently familiar with the guts of vim to debug this issue.

Any help highly appreciated!