Question

I have started working on Opencl for a project. I have wanted to use my favorite editor vim for my development and downloaded a opencl.vim file from vim.org and have placed in syntax directory of vim.

When i try to open any .cl file i get this error from vim. Can some one please help me with this:

Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/opencl.vim:
line    5:
E492: Not an editor command: ^M
line    6:
E15: Invalid expression: version < 600^M
line  159:
E171: Missing :endif

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

It looks like the file is using DOS format line endings (evidenced by ^M). Run a dos2unix utility on the file to convert it to UNIX line endings:

dos2unix /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/opencl.vim

(Make a backup copy first to be safe)