Helps SELinux policy maintainers to navigate the m4 mess. Upstream site.
What does it do?
- .te/.if syntax highlighting (based on m4 syntax)
- script to generate ctags for your project (and system interfaces)
- Vim function to call the script (can be bound to a key)
Tools needed:
- Vim
ctags(Exuberant Ctags recommended but any version will work)- SELinux policy sources installed in
/usr/share/selinux/devel/include/
Installation via Plug:
Plug 'lzap/vim-selinux'Installation via vundle:
Bundle 'lzap/vim-selinux'There is no configuration really, all you need to make sure is installing base SELinux policy. For Fedora and Red Hat system this would be:
# yum -y install selinux-policy-devel
or
# dnf -y install selinux-policy-devel
Then call a script called
create-selinux-ctags
in the project directory. It will create TAGS file in the current working
directory. Then use ctags navigation in Vim to browse and jump interfaces and
support macros within the project itself as well as SELinux base policy
installed in /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/.
There is a helper called SelinuxCtags and SelinuxCtagsSilent to do this
from Vim. This can be bound to a key if you want to update TAGS as you write
our code:
map <Leader>x :call SelinuxCtagsSilent()<CR>The function called SelinuxCtagsSilent has silenced output so no terminal is
shown for a smooth experience.
Tired of adding tags file into individual .gitignore files for each project?
Do this:
git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.cvsignore'
echo tags >> ~/.cvsignore
echo TAGS >> ~/.cvsignore
Thanks Tim Pope for this tip. Alternatively you can call tell ctags to create
TAGS in .git/ directory and configure Vim to read tags from there as well.
- Lukas Zapletal is the author and maintainer
- Thomas Bleher wrote the initial .te syntax file
- Miroslav Grepl wrote the ctags regexps for SELinux support
Vim license