hogklint / vim-logcat

Syntax highlighting for Android LogCat logs

Android LogCat Syntax/FTDetect

This is a vim syntax file for Android LogCat log files. The log files must be in the 'time' format: adb logcat -v time *:V

The filetype will be set to logcat for *.lc or *.logcat files or if the second file line is similar to the example below (the 1st line may not be a log entry, so that's why it's ignored).

A typical log entry is expected to look like this:

06-09 14:36:00.000 V/AlarmManager( 1484): sending alarm {957ff72 type 3 *alarm*:android.intent.action.TIME_TICK}
06-09 10:42:06.729 I/chatty  ( 1484): uid=1000(system) Binder:1484_5 expire 1 line

The highlighting may be customized from ~/.vimrc by adding tags to highlight to the myTags group, and words to highlight to the myKeywords group. For example, this would highlight "BatteryService" or "StatsUtilsManager" if they appear in the log tag, and "success" if it appears in the log message.

autocmd BufReadPost * if exists("b:current_syntax") && b:current_syntax == "logcat"
autocmd BufReadPost *     syn keyword myTags BatteryService StatsUtilsManager
autocmd BufReadPost *     syn keyword myKeywords success
autocmd BufReadPost * endif

TODO

Handle log files in formats other than 'time' (ex: brief, process, tag, threadtime, etc...).