= Vi Editor =

[http://www.vim.org/ 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.

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