David Nash » gvim

HTML syntax highlighting for Silverstripe .ss template files in vim

David — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:56:40 +0000

By default vim opens .ss files with some other file format syntax highlighting.

To enable HTML (actually XHTML) syntax highlighting on your .SS Silverstripe template files, create (or edit) your ~/.vim/filetype.vim file. Then enter this:

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.ss      setf xhtml

Then open a .ss file and it’ll give you nice HTML syntax highlighting. And because it’s in your home directory, it’ll keep working even after you upgrade vim.

Strip tags from HTML in vim

David — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:04:40 +0000

When upgrading a website you might see source code like this:

Some text goes here

You’re using CSS now and all those tags are ruining it. In gvim, do this search and substitute:

%s///g

Then to get rid of the tags, do this:

:%s/<\/span>//g

Strip ^M from file in vim

David — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:28:45 +0000

If there are ^M at the end of every line when you view them in vim, you can do this:
:%s/^M//g
To get the “^M” bit, hit ctrl-v and then ctrl-m.