APPARMOR.VIM(5)

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version 6.0.0~alpha1 · 20 versions
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💖 apparmor.vim — the vim syntax file for AppArmor profiles 💖

okay bestie, sit down, because this is genuinely one of my fave little manpages in the AppArmor family (it's section 5, the file formats girlies 🎀).

✨ NAME ✨

apparmor.vim — the vim syntax highlighting file for AppArmor profiles. yes. that's her. that's the whole job. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so here's the thing: your system may already be set up to automatically use syntax highlighting for installed AppArmor policies. if it is — slay, nothing to do, go live your life 🦋.

if it isn't, you can turn it on for one specific vim session by doing exactly this:

:set filetype=apparmor

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

apparmor.vim brings syntax highlighting rules to the vim(1) text editor, and honestly? it's giving personal stylist for your policy files. the rules give you an easy visual way to inspect AppArmor profiles — both for syntax correctness and for semantics. so like, not just "is this spelled right" but "what is this actually saying" 🫶.

and here's the iconic part: the colors indicate the relative severity of granting a specific set of privileges. like, the palette is lowkey telling you how spicy a rule is. 🌶️

ngl though, ranking access with colors is necessarily generic and vague — that's just the nature of the game, it can't read your threat model for you. but it may help you understand your profiles better, and that's the whole point. main character energy for your security posture, periodt. 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so, the tea: apparmor.vim does not properly detect dark versus light backgrounds. it just doesn't. 🙈

patches accepted. fr fr. if you find any bugs, please report them at <https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/issues>.

(please actually report them, we love a bug report, it feeds us 💖)

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read these next, they're all bangers:

and that's the page!! this one came to you from AppArmor 6.0.0~alpha1, dated 2026-10-05 — love her for showing up in the APPARMOR.VIM(5) era 💅✨ byeeee, go highlight something 🦋🌸

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