How to easily add syntax highlighting for custom DSL into Vim

I am wondering how to conveniently add a custom DSL syntax highlighting into VIM. Is there any good tutorial on this topic any开发者_如何学Cwhere?

The vim wiki on wikia has a nice tutorial about the creation of syntax files

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Creating_your_own_syntax_files

I am not sure there are tutorials available but the basic steps are :

• Read :help syntax from Vim, all of it, to understand how syntax highlighting work in Vim
• Have a look at existing syntax file in $VIMRUNTIME\syntax, identifying the language closest of what you want. By adapting an existing file, you won't have to rewrite everything from scratch.
• Create your own syntax file (+ file type) this will probably takes you some time.
• Add the following line to your .vimrc to use your newly created file type:
  au BufNewFile,BufRead *.newtype set filetype=newtype

Alternatively, if your language is somewhat popular, there is a good chance that someone else has already written a language.vim. If it is not available from vim.org you can search on github.