Using Vim for CUDA

Using Vim for CUDA

Since I began using Vim, I have been using it for CUDA development in Ubuntu.

To get Vim to highlight your code like C++, execute the following:
cd /usr/share/vim/vim*/syntax; sudo cp cpp.vim cu.vim
echo "au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cu set ft=cu" >> ~/.vimrc

If you want proper cuda highlighting, check out.

You can compile and run without leaving Vim. I was amazed to discover this, it's so useful! Here is an example:
cd ~/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/projects/template/
vim template_kernel.cu
:!make && ~/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/bin/linux/release/template

" Vim syntax file
2	" Language:     CUDA (NVIDIA Compute Unified Device Architecture)
3	" Maintainer:   Timothy B. Terriberry
4	" Last Change:  2007 Oct 13
5
6	" For version 5.x: Clear all syntax items
7	" For version 6.x: Quit when a syntax file was already loaded
8	if version < 600
9	syntax clear
10	elseif exists("b:current_syntax")
11	finish
12	endif
13
14	" Read the C syntax to start with
15	if version < 600
16	source :p:h/c.vim
17	else
18	runtime! syntax/c.vim
19	endif
20
21	" CUDA extentions
22	syn keyword cudaStorageClass    __device__ __global__ __host__
23	syn keyword cudaStorageClass    __constant__ __shared__
24	syn keyword cudaStorageClass    __inline__ __align__ __thread__
25	"syn keyword cudaStorageClass   __import__ __export__ __location__
26	syn keyword cudaStructure       template
27	syn keyword cudaType            char1 char2 char3 char4
28	syn keyword cudaType            uchar1 uchar2 uchar3 uchar4
29	syn keyword cudaType            short1 short2 short3 short4
30	syn keyword cudaType            ushort1 ushort2 ushort3 ushort4
31	syn keyword cudaType            int1 int2 int3 int4
32	syn keyword cudaType            uint1 uint2 uint3 uint4
33	syn keyword cudaType            long1 long2 long3 long4
34	syn keyword cudaType            ulong1 ulong2 ulong3 ulong4
35	syn keyword cudaType            float1 float2 float3 float4
36	syn keyword cudaType            ufloat1 ufloat2 ufloat3 ufloat4
37	syn keyword cudaType            dim3 texture textureReference
38	syn keyword cudaType            cudaError_t cudaDeviceProp cudaMemcpyKind
39	syn keyword cudaType            cudaArray cudaChannelFormatKind
40	syn keyword cudaType            cudaChannelFormatDesc cudaTextureAddressMode
41	syn keyword cudaType            cudaTextureFilterMode cudaTextureReadMode
42	syn keyword cudaVariable        gridDim blockIdx blockDim threadIdx
43	syn keyword cudaConstant        __DEVICE_EMULATION__
44	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaSuccess
45	" Many more errors are defined, but only these are listed in the maunal
46	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaErrorMemoryAllocation
47	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaErrorInvalidDevicePointer
48	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaErrorInvalidSymbol
49	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaErrorMixedDeviceExecution
50	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaMemcpyHostToHost
51	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaMemcpyHostToDevice
52	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost
53	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaMemcpyDeviceToDevice
54	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaReadModeElementType
55	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaReadModeNormalizedFloat
56	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaFilterModePoint
57	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaFilterModeLinear
58	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaAddressModeClamp
59	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaAddressModeWrap
60	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaChannelFormatKindSigned
61	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaChannelFormatKindUnsigned
62	syn keyword cudaConstant        cudaChannelFormatKindFloat
63
64	hi def link cudaStorageClass    StorageClass
65	hi def link cudaStructure       Structure
66	hi def link cudaType            Type
67	hi def link cudaVariable        Identifier
68	hi def link cudaConstant        Constant
69
70	let b:current_syntax = "cuda"
71
72	" vim: ts=8