Bug#533060: please add syslog highlighting

[Tomas Pospisek]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, James Vega wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 02:43:38PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> > Package: vim
> > Version: 2:7.2.079-1ubuntu5
>
> Please file bugs about the Ubuntu package in Ubuntu.

OK, so now I'm filling from some different machine, that runs Debian.

Version: 1:7.1.314-3+lenny2

However I checked that this applies equally to the current sid version.
Version: 2:7.2.148-2

> > Works fine here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=419
>
> There is already a syntax file for highlighting syslog messages shipped
> with Vim.  It's the 'messages' filetype.  As such, I'm closing the bug.

Correct. However vim doesn't automatically detect that /var/log/syslog is
of type 'messages'. The attached patch fixes this along with a plethora
of
other /var/log file which are by default of the same type.

I don't know if this could go upstream, since I didn't check whether all
those files, in case they exist, on other distributions have the same
format.
I would recon they do.

I'm thus reopening the wishlist bug and asking you to please consider
including detection of the affore mentioned file types.

Thanks,
*t