[Bug 928436] Re: needs actionscript syntax highlighting

[pi-rho]

Right, but you're asking a distribution to modify a software package
developed by a third party. Requests like that should go to the
developer (http://www.vim.org).

Adding a filetype and associated syntax, plugins, etc. in your home .vim
directory are very common.  There are solutions to make the process
easier as well as to tackle the problem of keeping those things updated
(see Pathogen, Vundle, others).

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Title:
  needs actionscript syntax highlighting

Status in “vim” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Actionscript syntax highlighting has been available for a while from vim.org:
  http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1061

  However, it's not included by default in the vim package. Instead,
  *.as defaults to Atlas files. I'm not 100% confident, but I imagine
  there are far more people editing actionscript code than are editing
  Atlas code out there. I'm tired of having to edit
  /usr/share/vim/vimcurrent/filetype.vim every time i install vim. Can
  we change vim packaging so that it includes Actionscript and maps *.as
  to it?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: vim 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Feb  7 11:27:43 2012
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: vim
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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