Splunk Search

Search Syntax Highlighting?

proletariat99
Communicator

Hi,
As my search strings get more and more ridiculous, I find myself writing them in sublimetext or notepad++ or vim as a cribsheet and then putting the final product into Splunk. Does anyone know of a plugin for Splunk search syntax highlighting for any of those 3 editors?

(yes, I realize I'm being lazy. Python syntax works pretty well, but it'd be nicer if someone else already wrote a Splunk search-specific one.)

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yoho
Contributor

I've just posted a VIM syntax highlighter: check it out.

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proletariat99
Communicator

Hi,
I started using this one recently and I really like it:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=5030

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yoho
Contributor

I've just posted a VIM syntax highlighter: check it out.

bshuler_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I use this one. It rocks for SublimeText https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/Generic%20Config

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