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Vim syntax highlighting for irssi IRC logs

Submitted by mgorven on Wed, 2008/10/01 - 16:19

When I occasionally read IRC logs saved by irssi, I find the lack of colouring rather annoying and find that I can't read them very quickly. I finally got round to writing a syntax highlighting plugin for Vim in order to correct this. The colours could probably do with some improvement, but it's much better than before.

In case anyone else finds this useful, I have attached the plugin to this post. To use it, save irssilog.vim in ~/.vim/syntax/ and enter the following command to use it with the current file.

:set syntax=irssilog

If you want Vim to automatically detect the file type, add the following to ~/.vim/ftdetect/irssilog.vim1.

au BufRead,BufNewFile */irclogs*.log    set filetype=irssilog

  1. This relies on the logs being stored in the default location of ~/irclogs/. ↩

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#1Submitted by Will Gray (not verified) on Tue, 2009/02/24 - 21:16.

Just thought I would let you

Just thought I would let you know that I extended your irssilog syntax file and uploaded it to http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=2553
#2Submitted by mgorven on Wed, 2009/02/25 - 00:04.

Nice :-) The nick colouring

Nice :-) The nick colouring is a great touch.
#3Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2008/12/14 - 13:35.

Very nice. I changed your

Very nice. I changed your syntax file to match log_timestamps which are formatted according by "%Y %H:%M ". You can find the syntax file at http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~shuber/sphpblog/index.php?entry=entry081214-1...