Introduction

Kamailio is already difficult enough to be understood. So that's why customizing a bit our tools can be useful.

In this how-to, we will add the syntax color for kamailio script and make it colored on start.

Few steps are needed to have a comfortable installation.

And two files are required. One is for syntax detection and the second one is for coloring rules.

Enable the auto-detection of syntax

Let's start by improving a bit our VI editor so it starts with few functionality enabled.

Edit the vi startup configuration file.

vi ~/.vimrc

Write the following line in it

filetype plugin on

Apply the changes

:wq

You can also add in vimrc, some lines such as : syntax on

That will enable automatically color syntax instead of have to write the command each time you open VI again.

Or as : colorsheme elflord

This last command, will allow you to define the set of color used by default when using syntax color.

So those commands will be launched on start of vim as well

Check if current user you are willing to use vi got a ~/.vim/ftdetect folder.

If it doesn't, create that folder.

mkdir ~/.vim

mkdir ~/.vim/ftdetect

Get the file for Kamailio script detection

cd ~/.vim/ftdetect

wget http://www.asipto.com/pub/sr-vim-syntax/3.0/ftdetect/ser.vim

Here is a local copy of the file :

Description	Syntax detection File for kamailio
File	data1/ftdetect/ser.vim
Size	546 bytes

Find the VIM folder

Open your VI editor.

Search for your runtime directory with this command while being in VI

:!echo $VIMRUNTIME

Copy the result and go to this folder for example :

cd /usr/share/vim/vim71

Open syntax folder

cd syntax

Get the syntax file to save it locally in the syntax folder

wget http://www.asipto.com/pub/sr-vim-syntax/3.0/syntax/ser.vim

Local copy of the file :