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authorDan Gohman <gohman@apple.com>2009-01-21 21:52:42 +0000
committerDan Gohman <gohman@apple.com>2009-01-21 21:52:42 +0000
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Versions of VIM included with Intrepid and Leopard at least appear
to handle symlinks just fine, so reword the instructions in the README accordingly. llvm-svn: 62719
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/utils/vim/README b/llvm/utils/vim/README
index ad10fee0be5..d999788809c 100644
--- a/llvm/utils/vim/README
+++ b/llvm/utils/vim/README
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ These are syntax highlighting files for the VIM editor. Included are:
* llvm.vim
- Syntax highlighting mode for LLVM assembly files. To use, COPY `llvm.vim' to
+ Syntax highlighting mode for LLVM assembly files. To use, copy `llvm.vim' to
~/.vim/syntax and add this code to your ~/.vimrc :
augroup filetype
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ These are syntax highlighting files for the VIM editor. Included are:
* tablegen.vim
- Syntax highlighting mode for TableGen description files. To use, COPY
+ Syntax highlighting mode for TableGen description files. To use, copy
`tablegen.vim' to ~/.vim/syntax and add this code to your ~/.vimrc :
augroup filetype
@@ -21,12 +21,13 @@ These are syntax highlighting files for the VIM editor. Included are:
augroup END
-IMPORTANT: Making symlinks from ~/.vim/syntax/... to the syntax files in your
-LLVM source tree does not work, you DO need to copy the files directly.
+If you prefer, instead of making copies you can make symlinks from
+~/.vim/syntax/... to the syntax files in your LLVM source tree. Apparently
+did not work with older versions of vim however, so if this doesn't work
+you may need to make actual copies of the files.
-However, if you do not already have a ~/.vim/syntax/ directory, simply
-symlinking it to llvm/utils/vim will do the trick nicely, and you can stay
-up-to-date with CVS.
+Another option, if you do not already have a ~/.vim/syntax directory, is
+to symlink ~/.vim/syntax itself to llvm/utils/vim .
Note: If you notice missing or incorrect syntax highlighting, please contact
<llvmbugs [at] cs.uiuc.edu>; if you wish to provide a patch to improve the
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