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+" Copyright (C) 2004 Jason Woofenden
+"
+" This file is part of herkforth.
+"
+" herkforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+" under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+" any later version.
+"
+" herkforth is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+" General Public License for more details.
+"
+" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+" along with herkforth; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
+" Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
+" MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+
+
+" This file implements syntax coloring in vim for the ascii representation of my colorforth source.
+"
+" To install, create a link to this file in ~/vim/syntax:
+"
+" ln -s `pwd`/syntax_coloring.vim ~/.vim/syntax/herkforth.vim
+"
+" Then add the following lines to the "filetypedetect" augroup in ~/.vim/filetype.vim
+"
+" au BufNewFile,BufRead blocks/[0-9][0-9][02468] setf herkforth
+"
+" (if you have no ~/.vim/filetype.vim then create the file with this text in it:
+"
+" augroup filetypedetect
+" au BufNewFile,BufRead blocks/[0-9][0-9][02468] setf herkforth
+" augroup END
+"
+" NOTE: be sure not to include the " marks at the begining of the lines in the above instructions
+
+highlight execute ctermfg=Yellow ctermbg=Black
+highlight define ctermfg=DarkRed ctermbg=Black
+highlight compile ctermfg=DarkGreen ctermbg=Black
+highlight brackets ctermfg=Blue ctermbg=Black
+highlight comment0 ctermfg=Grey ctermbg=Black
+highlight comment1 ctermfg=Grey ctermbg=Black
+highlight comment2 ctermfg=Grey ctermbg=Black
+highlight comment3 ctermfg=Grey ctermbg=Black
+highlight string ctermfg=DarkGrey ctermbg=Black
+
+syntax match compile /[^][; ]/
+syntax match execute /[^][]/
+syntax match define /^ *: [^ ]\+/
+syntax match comment0 /^(.*/
+syntax match comment1 / (.*/
+syntax match comment2 /\\.*/
+syntax match comment3 /^#! .*/
+syntax match string /^" .*/
+
+syntax region brackets start="^ *:\|]"hs=s+ end=" [[;]" contains=variable_def,tic,define,compile,const_def
+
+
+" this is the range of characters that are considered part of a word (any
+" non-whitespace printable 7-bit char). This enables the tags to work on all
+" forth words (see README for more info on tags.)
+set isk=33-255