Editing OpenEmbedded and Bitbake files with syntax highlighting at Vim

Now that I’m currently working with OpenEmbedded at Mamona, I often have to edit and create new ‘bb’ files (the definition and instructions to build packages or define configurations, like ebuilds for Gentoo).

After working with ebuilds to build a few packages, I was really comfortable with the syntax highlighting and new ebuild templates that I have with Vim, but didn’t found anything like that for Bitbake and OpenEmbedded.

First searching for syntax highlighting for Bitbake, I found that Chris Larson already created a Vim syntax file that covered almost everything I need, but was a little bit different from what we have with ebuilds, so I decided to create my own syntax (based on Chris’) and template plugin.

Here’s the code, I just released the version 0.1, it’s quite easy to install, just like any other vim syntax and plugins, just copy the directories at your ~/.vim (sorry emacs users, but this is only for Vim Back