Vi Editor

​Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It supports syntax highlighting and code completion for many languages. However, PAN language is not supported by default. The following sections describes how to use Vi for PAN template development.

If you want to enable PAN syntax highlighting or code completion, the first step is to tell to Vim how to recognize PAN files. To do this, create the following directory:

mkdir -p ${HOME}/.vim/ftdetect

and download the following file from the quattor website:

https://quattor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/quattor/trunk/util/vim/ftdetect/pan.vim

and copy it to the ${HOME}/.vim/ftdetect directory.

Syntax Highlighting

For highlighting PAN keywords, create the syntax directory with the following command:

mkdir ${HOME}/.vim/syntax

Then download the following file from the quattor website:

https://quattor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/quattor/trunk/util/vim/syntax/pan.vim

and copy it to the ${HOME}/.vim/syntax directory.

PAN Code Completion

For enabling code auto-completion, add the following line in your .vimrc file: filetype plugin on

Then create the autoload and ftplugin directories with the following commands:

mkdir ${HOME}/.vim/autoload
mkdir ${HOME}/.vim/ftplugin

Put in the autoload directory the following file:

https://quattor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/quattor/trunk/util/vim/autoload/pancomplete.vim

Put in the ftplugin directory the following file:

https://quattor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/quattor/trunk/util/vim/ftplugin/pan.vim

Code completion is performed by using Ctrl-x + Ctrl-o in insert or append mode.