OpenHAB has a great development environment with the "openHAB Designer". But in some cases you want to use another editor to make changes to the configuration files of openHAB. To make this more effectiv there are some files to enable syntax highlighting for openHAB-files in these editors.

• mcedit
• Notepad++
• vi
• nano

mcedit is an editor which comes with mc (Midnight Commander).

• download copy the syntax-files to /usr/share/mc/syntax/

• https://code.google.com/p/openhab-samples/source/browse/syntaxhl/mc/?repo=wiki

• insert the following lines to the file Syntax in /usr/share/mc/syntax/

    file ..\*\\.(items)$ openHAB\sItems 
    include openhab-items.syntax  
     
    file ..\*\\.(sitemap)$ openHAB\sSitemap 
    include openhab-sitemap.syntax
     
    file ..\*\\.(persist)$ openHAB\sPersistence
    include openhab-persist.syntax
     
    file ..\*\\.(rules)$ openHAB\sRules
    include openhab-rules.syntax 

• edit the Debian-line from file (rules|rocks)$ Debian\srules to file (rocks)$ Debian\srules because it interferes with openHABs rules-files.

Notepad++ Version 6.2 or above is required to support UDL2 (User Defined Language v2).

color brightgreen "//." color brightgreen start="/*" end="*/" color brightgreen start="/**" end="*/"# Comments color brightgreen "//." color brightgreen start="/*" end="*/" color brightgreen start="/**" end="*/"# Comments color brightgreen "//." color brightgreen start="/*" end="*/" color brightgreen start="/**" end="*/"# Comments color brightgreen "//." color brightgreen start="/*" end="*/" color brightgreen start="/**" end="*/"# Comments color brightgreen "//." color brightgreen start="/*" end="*/" color brightgreen start="/**" end="*/"# Comments color brightgreen "//." color brightgreen start="/*" end="*/" color brightgreen start="/**" end="*/"# Comments color brightgreen "//." color brightgreen start="/*" end="*/" color brightgreen start="/**" end="*/"# Comments color brightgreen "//." color brightgreen start="/*" end="*/" color brightgreen start="/**" end="*/"# Comments color brightgreen "//." color brightgreen start="/*" end="*/" color brightgreen start="/**" end="*/"# Comments color brightgreen "//." color brightgreen start="/*" end="*/" color brightgreen start="/**" end="*/"# Comments color brightgreen "//.*" color brightgreen start="/*" end="*/" color brightgreen start="/**" end="*/" http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.2-release-udl2.html

• Download the UDL2-Files (openHAB-*.xml)
• https://code.google.com/p/openhab-samples/source/browse/syntaxhl/npp/?repo=wiki
• Install or update Notepad++ if necessary
• http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/
• Open Notepad++
• Click "Language" (1)
• Click "Define your language.." (2)
• Click "Import..." (3)
• Select one of the downloaded XML-files
• Done.

Paste the following code into a commandline

mkdir -p ~/.vim/{ftdetect,syntax} && \
curl -L -o ~/.vim/syntax/openhab.vim https://github.com/cyberkov/openhab-vim/raw/master/syntax/openhab.vim && \
curl -L -o ~/.vim/ftdetect/openhab.vim https://github.com/cyberkov/openhab-vim/raw/master/ftdetect/openhab.vim

• Download the syntax files from https://github.com/cyberkov/openhab-vim
• place them in your home directory under ~/.vim/
• start vim with an openHAB configuration file and it should work.

Nano is a common editor in linux systems

• Download the syntax file openhab.nanorc from https://github.com/airix1/openhabnano
• place them in your nanorc directory ie: ~/.nano or /usr/share/nano. Then simply include the openhab.nanorc file in your ~/.nanorc or /etc/nanorc file ie:

## Openhab
include /usr/share/nano/openhab.nanorc