18 November 2014

You can easily test or enable syntax highlighting, vim supports a huge list of programming languages. Well worth the minutes it takes to activate, it also works in putty.

You can try it out, just open a file and insert these commands: 
Source code viewer
  1. :filetype plugin on
  2. :syntax on
Programming Language: Text
To make it permanent add these lines to vim ~/.vimrc. Tilde (~) is your home directory. 
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  1. vim ~/.vimrc
Programming Language: Bash
Source code viewer
  1. filetype plugin on
  2. syntax on
Programming Language: Text