topic Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...? in QlikView

VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Does anyone have a plugin for VIM that will do the syntax highlighting? Or maybe for some other editor?

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:47:22 GMT

Oh, man--that would be super handy.

You ever find anything that would work?

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:53:55 GMT

No, I haven't found anything yet. I did find something for Notepad+ but I never use it so it didn't help me.

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

chris3669 — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 02:45:11 GMT

Hi,

Uploaded on GitHub.

GitHub - ChristianNogueira/Qlikview_Vim_Syntax: Vim syntax highlighting for Qlikview

Hope it helps

Regards

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

Thu, 23 Jun 2016 18:42:05 GMT

Oooo! This is awesome--best news I've had all week.

Just cloned the repo and installed it--looks great so far. I'll keep you posted on how it shakes out in real life. Thanks!

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

maksim_senin — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 02:12:21 GMT

Guys,

I'm sorry for a stupid question, but how VIM helps with QlikView or vise versa???

Thanking you in advance.

Best regards,

Maxim

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

chris3669 — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:25:55 GMT

Hi Maxim,

Vim (and GVim) is a very powerful text editor.

it is easier to maintain all scripts on qvs files and use includes on qvw files. So you can recycle script pieces around and being able to use GIT tools.

Also, its not nice being stuck with white background on the script window.

Its is all about the script part of Qlikview.

Regards

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 15:15:29 GMT

I use vim, almost eclusively, for editing every kind of text. Once you get the keybindings into muscle memory, it's much faster/easier to edit in Vim than anywhere else.

Editing .qvs scripts in Vim will be much easier/faster/better than doing it in Qlikview.

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

maksim_senin — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 23:08:36 GMT

Hi Christian, Jake,

Thanks, I assume that, but this means you store your scripts outside your QVWs, right?

We have some externaly stored parts of scripts but it is hard to imagine a work process when all or most part of scripts are stored in external files.

Please provide some details how you work with this when you have time. It's very interesting.

Thanking you in advance.

Best regards,

Maxim

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

Peter_Cammaert — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 07:37:19 GMT

I think you better launch a new discussion on this subject. It's a bit off-topic. And you might attract more feedback from people not really interested in using Vim.

Peter

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:15:50 GMT

In my office, everybody but me uses the free version of Qlikview. To avoid maintaining and editing 20 different apps one by one, I store the load script on a network share and then just set everybody's app to source that single script. So the load scripts in the app are usually one line long:

$(Include=G:\ALUMNI\Jake T\datawarehouse\load-script-for-others--commits.qvs);

Then in load-script-for-others--commits.qvs I have all the code to load all our data.

On the other hand, even if I didn't, whenever I do any script editing, I often find myself hitting the keyboard shortcuts to vim, which do nothing in Qlikview at best and at worst close the editor without saving the changes I've been working on for the last hour. Copying and pasting my work into and out of vim for editing is 100% worth it.

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

Thu, 07 Jul 2016 14:20:10 GMT

Christian, I sent you a pull request on Github--I added directories so folks could see where the files go and created a qvs.vim file in ftdetect so vim would apply the highlighting just to qvs files.

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

maksim_senin — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 02:47:14 GMT

Hi Jake,

Thanks, this explains and clarifies everything for me. A good choice in your case.

Best regards,

Maxim

P.S. I'm sorry for off-topic

Re: VIM Syntax Highlighting? Or...?

Leo_Ramírez — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 02:55:02 GMT

How to install it? vim-plug has to be used maybe? or qvs.vim has to be put somewhere?