dart.vim syntax file

Dart is an object-oriented, typed, class defined, garbage collected language used for developing mobile, desktop, web, and back-end applications. Dart uses a C-like syntax derived from C, Java, and JavaScript, with features adopted from Smalltalk, Python, Ruby, and others.

More information about the language and its development environment at the official Dart Programming Language website.

dart.vim syntax detects and highlights Dart statements, reserved words, type declarations, storage classes, conditionals, loops, interpolated values, and comments. There is no support for idioms from Flutter or any other Dart framework.

Requirements

The installation procedure described here are only required if the syntax detection and highlighting from this project have not been merged into the Vim public distribution.

Simple requirements:

1. Dart syntax file(s) for Vim 8.1 and later
2. $HOME/.vim must exist for local installation

Recommended:

Have Git available for automatic installation / updates to the $HOME/.vim using the dart4vim command, included with this distribution.

Installation

End-user installation is only required until the Vim team approves merging this Dart syntax project into the main syntax files. Dart syntax highlighting project maintainers also require manual file handling. This process installs the files in $HOME/.vim and Dart syntax highlight will be available on any Vim / MacVim / gVim that the user runs.

Express installation

1. Exit Vim, MacVim, gVim - all Vim instances associated with your user
2. Execute from the console:
   curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pr3d4t0r/dart-vim-syntax/master/dart4vim | sh -s install
3. Open vim example.dart to validate

Automatic installation

1. Exit Vim, MacVim, gVim - all Vim instances associated with your user
2. Download the dart4vim bash script
3. Run the ./dart4vim install script
4. Open vim example.dart to validate

Dart syntax highlight developer installation

1. Exit Vim, MacVim, gVim - all Vim instances associated with your user
2. Clone the Dart syntax repository:
   git clone https://github.com/pr3d4t0r/dart-vim-syntax.git dart-vim
3. Remove any old Dart syntax files already installed in $HOME/.vim
./dart4vim remove
4. Select the Git branch from whence to install the syntax files
5. Install from the project working directory:
   ./dart4vim quick
6. Open vim example.dart to validate

Manual installation

1. Exit Vim, MacVim, gVim - all Vim instances associated with your user
2. Clone the Dart syntax repository:
   git clone https://github.com/pr3d4t0r/dart-vim-syntax.git dart-vim
3. Copy the syntax file to the local environment:
   cp dart-vim/syntax/dart.vim ~/.vim/syntax
4. Then the file detection file: cp dart-vim/ftdetect/dart.vim ~/.vim/ftdetect
5. And the documentation: cp dart-vim/doc/dart.vim ~/.vim/doc
6. Open vim example.dart to validate

About

Support: Eugene Ciurana, <dart.syntax AT cime.net>, https://ciurana.eu/pgp or https://keybase.io/pr3d4t0r

Updates will be available through this repository and submitted for review to the Vim team in accordance to https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/contributing.md

License

Vim is Charityware. dart.vim syntax is Charityware.

© Copyright 2019 by Eugene Ciurana / pr3d4t0r. Licensed under the standard VIM LICENSE - Vim command :help uganda.txt for details.