Highest scored 'vim+syntax-highlighting' questions

190 votes

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How to force vim to syntax-highlight a file as html?

How do I set vim's syntax highlighting to treat a file extension as an html file? I'm using ez template, so the file's extension is .ezt. But a lot of it is normal html code.

Karthick

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asked Oct 4, 2010 at 5:20

147 votes

4 answers

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Persistent :set syntax for a given filetype?

I'm working on a Symfony2 project which uses Twig, and the filetypes are myfile.html.twig. Vim doesn't automatically detect the syntax highlighting and so applies none. I can use :set syntax=HTML ...

Bendihossan

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asked Jul 26, 2012 at 9:21

129 votes

3 answers

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How to tell which colorscheme a Vim session currently uses

You can set the Vim color scheme by issuing :colorscheme SCHEME_NAME but, oddly enough, you can't get the currently used scheme by issuing :colorscheme as this results in "E471: Argument required"....

gotgenes

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asked Mar 10, 2010 at 18:48

118 votes

4 answers

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Vim Configure Line Number Coloring

I'm looking for a way to configure the color used for line numbering (as in: :set nu) in Vim. The default on most platforms seems to be yellow (which is also used for some highlighted tokens). I ...

Daniel Spiewak

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asked Oct 26, 2008 at 0:52

108 votes

9 answers

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How to change font color for comments in Vim

I'd like to change the default font color for comments, which is dark blue to slightly yellow color. It is difficult to read on the black background. I'm using xfce4-terminal, not gvim with GUI. How ...

xralf

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asked Apr 29, 2011 at 9:04

101 votes

7 answers

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Vim, how to reload syntax highlighting

When I execute Rmodel, Rcontroller and others in Vim. I see only white text. But when I go to next buffer and then go back by :bn and :bl, colors are working. This is my .vim folder https://github....

tomekfranek

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asked Dec 29, 2011 at 22:48

92 votes

13 answers

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How to highlight Bash scripts in Vim?

My Vim editor auto highlights PHP files (vim file.php), HTML files (vim file.html) and so on. But when I type: vim file and inside it write a Bash script, it doesn't highlight it. How can I tell Vim ...

never_had_a_name

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asked Apr 5, 2010 at 2:45

77 votes

11 answers

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class & function names highlighting in Vim

I just recently set up my Vim environment from Textmate, after becoming addicted to its modal input. However, syntax highlighting seems to be not so beautiful in Vim. I code in C++ and since the ...

ivanTheTerrible

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asked Apr 10, 2009 at 4:27

58 votes

3 answers

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In vim, how do I highlight TODO: and FIXME:?

In vim, FIXME and TODO are highlighted, but I can't get FIXME: and TODO: (note the colon after the keyword) to highlight? What should I put in my .vimrc to make this happen?

Paul Biggar

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asked Nov 4, 2010 at 13:46

57 votes

9 answers

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Vim Syntax Highlighting does not work

I've installed a fresh Arch Linux system on my laptop and downloaded the vim package. I haven't altered the .vimrc file, but the syntax highlighting doesn't seem to work with any of the languages I ...

Gilad Naaman

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asked Nov 3, 2013 at 15:56

53 votes

7 answers

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Change syntax color in vim?

I have syntax highlighting on, but comments are set to dark blue. This hard for me to read against a black terminal. How do I change it so that the comments are colored green instead?

unholysampler

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asked Dec 11, 2009 at 18:47

52 votes

6 answers

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Highlighting the current line number in vim

Is there a way to highlight only the current line number (in the left hand coloumn) in vim, without highlighting the background of the current line? Ideally, I would Like to make the current line ...

cg433n

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asked Nov 23, 2011 at 18:25

48 votes

6 answers

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Syntax highlight for .ejs files in vim

What is the best way to make vim highlight ejs (http://embeddedjs.com/) files? Is it possible to set up html highlight for the file in general and javascript highlight to it's parts inside <% %>? ...

lyuba

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asked Jan 4, 2011 at 19:49

41 votes

2 answers

11k views

vim's current highlighed language

How to know which programming language is set for highlighting the syntax in vim. I can set the language by "setf" command, but how to get the current language? Thanks.

MKo

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asked Mar 16, 2011 at 12:04

37 votes

5 answers

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How to change the color of the selected code (Vim scheme)?

How do I change the color of the selected code in Vim? There are three selection modes, Visual Line mode or Visual Block mode, and selecting with the mouse). hi CursorLine guibg=#DDDDDD gui=none ...

wyc

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asked Jun 19, 2010 at 2:17

35 votes

3 answers

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vim randomly breaks syntax highlighting

When working on a remote server with rather large ping times, the syntax highlighting suddenly and seeming randomly breaks. When that happens, it looks like this: The syntax highlighting is fine til ...

pfnuesel

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asked Dec 1, 2014 at 18:48

35 votes

5 answers

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VIM: simple steps to create syntax highlight file - for logfiles

I have some (log4j generated) logfiles to go through; I know their format pretty well (I mean I have already got off-the-peg regexes etc I can use). I want to automatically highlight them in VIM when ...

monojohnny

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asked Feb 3, 2010 at 15:44

32 votes

4 answers

12k views

Vim inconsistently syntax highlighting bash files

When I open some bash script files with vim it sometimes identifies them as conf files, that's okay, I can just correct that by setting the filetype to sh with :setf sh. That great, except I've ...

Peter Coulton

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asked Sep 16, 2011 at 21:05

30 votes

2 answers

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vim: associate extension with language

I have gvim 7.2, it recognizes .d files and highlights it correctly according to the syntax of the D programming language. However, .di files are not recognized as D files, and no highlighting is ...

hasen

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asked May 30, 2009 at 5:44

29 votes

4 answers

11k views

vim syntax highlight improve performance

How do I improve performance when I'm scrolling my files and coding them? With syntax highlighting, vim is so slow. When I switch it off, everything is ok. Is there a way or any recommendations to ...

RusAlex

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asked Jan 23, 2011 at 18:34

26 votes

3 answers

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Vim highlight a list of words

I need to highlight a list of words in vim, preferably the words should be defined in a file. A bit like spell checking. I have been looking at http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_multiple_words but ...

zpon

1,512

asked Nov 12, 2010 at 8:05

25 votes

2 answers

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How do you get Vim to highlight C++ syntax errors like Visual Studio?

Is it possible to get gVim to highlight C++ syntax errors (the red squiggles underneath) in real-time like Visual Studio?

teknix

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asked Dec 2, 2012 at 21:46

24 votes

3 answers

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Vim context highlighting

I think standard highlighting is useful -- to some extent. When programming with callbacks and nested structures, this does not help. Keywords and strings, they appear everywhere, and it helps when ...

user1621465

asked Feb 15, 2013 at 22:05

21 votes

3 answers

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syntax highlighting doesn't work after restore a previous vim session

since dividing and loading each windows every time are kinda bothersome, I saved my session using: mksession ~/session1.vim and restored it using: vim -S session1.vim or source session1.vim it ...

devEvan

361

asked Feb 14, 2012 at 17:29

20 votes

6 answers

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Vim syntax coloring: How do I highlight long lines only?

I would like vim to color "long" lines for me. Using 80 columns as an example, I would like to highlight lines that exceed that length. Here is roughly what I think the .vimrc file should contain, ...

Paul Beckingham

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asked Dec 27, 2008 at 16:02

20 votes

2 answers

5k views

How to syntax highlight fragments of code in one language embedded in the source code in another language in Vim?

I have a custom XML file format which can contain blocks of code within certain tags. For example: <Root> <Sql> select * from foo </Sql> <MoreJunk> ... </MoreJunk>...

HS.

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asked Feb 6, 2009 at 10:04

20 votes

2 answers

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Turn off vim syntax highlighting inside C++ comments

I recently downloaded vim 8.0. I don't know if I messed something up or a default changed, but in this code... int foo() { // This is a comment containing a "string" and the number 5. return ...

Michael Kristofik

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asked Dec 2, 2016 at 20:17

19 votes

3 answers

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Can I make vim do syntax highlighting on C++ headers that don't have extensions?

I have a project with a bunch of C++ header files that follow the standard C++ header naming convention; that is, a class called Foo would be declared in a file called Foo, not Foo.h or Foo.hh. Is ...

Jason R

11.4k

asked May 14, 2012 at 13:46

19 votes

5 answers

5k views

Razor .cshtml syntax highlighting for vim?

I'm looking for a .cshtml vim syntax file. Are there any projects that haven't made it to www.vim.org?

John Weldon

40.4k

asked Jul 2, 2011 at 18:40

18 votes

2 answers

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vim conceal with more than one character

Actually I'd like to display -> with → (there is a space after the arrow) in haskell files. But I have the impression the conceal mechanism only work to replace -> by one character. An ...

yogsototh

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asked Nov 29, 2011 at 11:15

18 votes

2 answers

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Trouble using Vim's syn-include and syn-region to embed syntax highlighting

I am trying to get Vim to syntax highlight any file that ends with extension .Rtex in the following way: All top level text is highlighted as TeX Exception: any text enclosed in \begin{python}...\end{...

Maxy-B

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asked Mar 3, 2011 at 5:21

17 votes

1 answer

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vim syntax highlighting for git commit messages - custom commentchar

As mentioned in this answer, since Git 1.8.2 you can use core.commentchar config value to change commit message comments to something else than the default # (hashmark or hashsign). That is a life-...

Alois Mahdal

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asked Apr 23, 2013 at 8:34

15 votes

4 answers

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How to enable syntax highlighting for CUDA .cu and .cuh files in Vim?

I found that my ~/.vimrc file has syntax on but it didn't work for any CUDA file (.cu). Not sure to how to do it.

Hailiang Zhang

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asked Oct 29, 2012 at 20:14

15 votes

1 answer

4k views

Vim : Highlight the word TODO for every filetype

I would like to highlight the word TODO in vim, no matter what file is edited (code or normal text). It currently works for many different languages (for example, TODO is highlighted in C/Java ...

user1536048

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asked Jul 29, 2012 at 14:23

15 votes

2 answers

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Syntax coloring with Vim and Fish-Shell

What is the best editor for fish scripts? I mean an editor which can properly highlight, indent and syntax check. I found the vim-fish project, but I am still scratching my head as to how to install ...

Olivier Refalo

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asked Nov 12, 2013 at 15:16

15 votes

4 answers

4k views

VIM syntax highlighting of html nested in yaml

Given a yaml file that contains html, like this: template : |+ <div>Hello, world</div> Is it possible in Vim (version 7.3.087) to highlight the html portion with html syntax ...

Brian M. Hunt

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asked Jan 28, 2011 at 15:03

14 votes

4 answers

5k views

Where can I find a Vim syntax file for the go language?

Has anyone created a vim syntax file for the go language?

C. Ross

31.5k

asked Nov 18, 2009 at 17:12

14 votes

7 answers

8k views

Enabling italics in vim syntax highlighting for mac terminal

I'd like to have vim display my comments in italics, and I understand I need to place cterm=italic in the hi Comment line in the color.vim file I'm using. This, however, is having no effect on the ...

daltonb

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asked Aug 25, 2009 at 9:01

14 votes

7 answers

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Highlighting unmatched brackets in vim

I'm getting burned repeatedly by unmatched parentheses while writing python code in vim. I like how they're handled for C code - vim highlights in red all of the curly braces following the unmatched ...

Michael Kristofik

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asked Feb 12, 2009 at 19:47

14 votes

2 answers

1k views

gvim long multiline string highlighting

I make extensive use of multiline docstrings in my python source code to include doctests. Unfortunately, vim/gvim seems to have a hard time with syntax highlighting, occasionally losing it's place ...

SingleNegationElimination

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asked Jul 12, 2011 at 21:12

14 votes

3 answers

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In Vim, how to keep characters concealed even when cursor enters that line

I may have a unique situation here. I want gVim (gui version, in Linux) to keep concealed characters concealed no matter what, even when the cursor is on that line or that character gets selected. (...

Brian

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asked Mar 7, 2012 at 15:12

14 votes

4 answers

11k views

VIM Colorschemes in Screen & PuTTy?

I've been trying to get colourschemes to work properly in VIM when using it over ssh with PuTTy as a client but unfortunately I haven't had much success. I can only get 8bit colours working with PuTTY ...

Patrick O'Doherty

1,642

asked Oct 27, 2009 at 10:49

14 votes

1 answer

2k views

Syntax-highlight Python in a vim fold line

I have found that code-folding helps me organize my files better. Thus, at the bottom of my ~/.vimrc, I enable vim code folding by default: ""Folding set foldmethod=indent set foldnestmax=2 nnoremap &...

Mike Pennington

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asked Dec 28, 2011 at 12:15

12 votes

3 answers

2k views

vim folding messes up syntax highlighting

I'm using vim for LaTeX and I'm using latex-suite. It gives me nice syntax highlighting and folding, but in large files syntax highlighting gets "confused". If I open all folds, the syntax ...

svrist

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asked Aug 31, 2010 at 9:02

12 votes

3 answers

6k views

How do I make vim syntax highlight a whole line?

I'd like to have vim highlight entire lines that match certain patterns. I can get all the text in a line to highlight (by doing syn match MyMatch "^.*text-to-match.*$"), but it always stops at the ...

valadil

1,668

asked Jan 27, 2010 at 21:02

12 votes

3 answers

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MacVim gets all settings from ~/.vimrc, but not the colors and I have to source it again

I am using the following ~/.vimrc with MacVim 7.4 on MacOS X Mavericks: set guifont=Menlo:h14 set encoding=utf8 set mouse=a set expandtab set ts=8 set showcmd set nocompatible set backspace=2 set ...

Alexander Farber

22.4k

asked Jan 14, 2014 at 11:55

12 votes

3 answers

2k views

Can I use both Python and SQL syntax highlighting in the same file in Vim?

I use multiline strings for SQL queries inside Python programs. Is there a way to tell Vim to apply different highlighting rules inside them, possibly by using a --SQL marker?

Marco Mariani

13.6k

asked Feb 2, 2011 at 10:28

12 votes

3 answers

4k views

how to partially "link" highlighting groups?

I'm trying to do this on my .vimrc: hi link SyntasticErrorLine SignColumn hi link SyntasticErrorSign SignColumn hi SyntasticErrorSign guifg=red ctermfg=red What I want is to have the ...

oblitum

11.7k

asked Sep 12, 2013 at 21:52

12 votes

2 answers

6k views

syntax highlighting in a VIM fold header

Is there any way to have VIM continue to apply formatting to the line used as the header for a fold? E.g., I have the following code: int foo(int a, int b) { int c; .... } When folded, I see: +...

Mikeage

6,524

asked Nov 28, 2009 at 17:02

12 votes

4 answers

8k views

Vim variable syntax highlighting

I'd like to change my vim config file to allow highlighting of only my declared variables, not keywords. This article shows and explains what I mean: Alternate syntax highlighting I'm a beginner to ...

CS Student

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asked Jan 27, 2014 at 14:33

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