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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][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...