= Vim Cobra Support =
== Single User ==
Change to your home directory
{{{
cd $HOME
}}}

Get the most recent updates from the Mercurial repository via a clone
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hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ramonrocha/cobra-on-vim/ cobra-vim
}}}

For *.zip, *.gz, and *.bz2 archives download the file from [http://bitbucket.org/ramonrocha/cobra-on-vim/]

Create a  ''.vim'' directory if one isn't already present
{{{
mkdir .vim
}}}

Then copy the four folders (colors, indent, ftdetect, syntax) from cobra-vim into the .vim directory:
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cp -r cobra-vim/* .vim
}}}

Open or create a file with a '''.cobra''' extension and you will have highlighting and indentation for Cobra

If you use a dark background, you can try the cobra color scheme.  Execute the following command while in Vim.
{{{
:colorscheme cobra
}}}

If you use a light background, you can try the cobralight color scheme instead.
{{{
:colorscheme cobralight
}}}

Add either of the previous commands to your ''.vimrc'' file in your home directory to make the change permanent.

To change back to the default color scheme, execute:
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:colorscheme default
}}}

If the color schemes don't seem to be working then your terminal may not support all necessary colors.  Check the value of your TERM variable by executing
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echo $TERM
}}}
at the command prompt.  If it reports ''xterm'' then you can try the following to enable color support.
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export TERM=xterm-256color
}}}

If the colors show up correctly now you can add that line to your ''.bashrc'' file.  This was tested on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 10.04 LTS.

== All Users ==
For all users use your system admin privileges to copy the ''indent/cobra.vim'', ''ftdetect/cobra.vim'', ''syntax/cobra.vim'', into Vim's ''indent'', ''ftdetect'', and ''syntax'' directories, respectively. These directories are found in the Vim home path. An example of such a Vim path is ''/usr/share/vim/vim72''.

= Alternative =

Per Eric Z. Beard:

Vim set to python works Ok in a pinch.

{{{
au BufNewFile,BufEnter *.cobra set noexpandtab ts=4 sw=4 filetype=python
}}}