Stephan Bourduas

I've been working with PSL/Sugar lately to verify some VHDL code. Anyone who's ever coded knows how useful syntax highlighting is, so when I started editing PSL, I was quite annoyed to find that there no syntax highlighting available iin Vim for PSL. I did some searching on the net and found this user contributed syntax file for PSL/Verilog. I tried using posted syntax file 'as is', but it wouldn't work for me. I spent about an hour going through some vimdocs and was able to get it to work with VHDL.

I created a file called psl.vim which contains the syntax highlighting definitions for PSL and VHDL. In order to use the file, you need to put it in ~/.vim/syntax. To get vim to automatically load the PSL highlight definitions when you open a file ending in .psl, add the following to your ~/.vimrc file

autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.psl setfiletype psl

Before the PSL keywords are defined, I've added the following which will load the VHDL syntax definitions:

" include VHDL syntax
runtime! syntax/vhdl.vim

" include Verilog syntax
" runtime! syntax/verilog.vim