VIM VI syntax file for Parallax SX/B Basic version 2.0

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

1. Installing the Syntax file

• install it in your VIM syntax directory. You can find the directory by doing: locate basic.vim
  if you system does not have locate, you can use find, it will just bit a bit slower: find / -name "basic.vim"
  
  The result may look something like this: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/basic.vim
  Copy the sxbbasic.vim file into that directory: cp sxbbasic.vim /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/
  

2. Activating Automatic Highlighting

• Now we need to setup VIM to auto call it when editing a file with a .sxb extension
  
  First we need to find your filetype config file, do another locate: locate filetype.vim
  if you system does not have locate, you can use find, it will just bit a bit slower: find / -name "filetype.vim"
  
  the result may look something like this: /usr/share/vim/vim71/filetype.vim
  Once you find the file, open it in vi: /usr/share/vim/vim71/filetype.vim
  
  Find the section that looks like this:
  

• 
  " BASIC or Visual Basic
  au BufNewFile,BufRead *.bas                     call s:FTVB("basic")
  

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  " SX/Basic 
  au BufNewFile,BufRead *.sxb                     call s:FTVB("sxbbasic")
  

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