A basic BSV syntax highlighing mode for the vi clone VIM (http://www.vim.org). The mode is mostly written from scratch, with two regexps copied from VIM's Verilog mode. To use, create a ~/.vim directory for your vim settings, with subdirectories ~/.vim/ftdetect , ~/.vim/indent and ~/.vim/syntax. Then copy the files from ftdetect/ , indent/ and syntax/ to ~/.vim/ftdetect/ , ~/.vim/indent and ~/.vim/syntax/ respectively. Or in unix terms tcsh: > mkdir -p ~/.vim/ftdetect > mkdir -p ~/.vim/indent > mkdir -p ~/.vim/syntax > (cd $BLUESPECDIR/../util/vim; tar cf - *) | (cd ~/.vim; tar xvf -) in your .tcshrc you may need to set the environment variable VIMRUNTIME setenv VIMRUNTIME /usr/share/vim/vim71 or in bash VIMRUNTIME=/usr/share/vim/vim71 verify this exists: older versions may have /usr/shar/vim/vim61 You may need to run " :syn on " once vim is running to enable syntax coloring In order to enable BSV indenting, it is recommended to add the following to your .vimrc file: if has("autocmd") " Enabled file type detection " Enabled file language-dependent indenting filetype plugin on filetype indent on endif " has ("autocmd") let b:verilog_indent_modules = 1