Enable the Syntax highlighting in Vim.

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Mark
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Joined: 04/14/2012

Hello,

I need your help to enable the syntax highlighting in Vim.

I want to develop some website with HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, JQuery... But I don't know how to enable the syntax highlighting.

:syntax enable don't work and :source $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/syntax.vim don't work too.

The terminal return :
E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version
E484: Can't open file /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/syntax.vim

My version on Vim is the 7.3.429.

Can you help me please ? Thanks a lot.

eddie
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Joined: 05/18/2013

It works for me. i have added "syntax on" in ~/.vimrc (without quotes).

Did you apt-get install vim?
If yes, try apt-get install vim-gnome

Mark
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Joined: 04/14/2012

Thanks for your answer.

I'm sorry but where is the file : ~/.vimrc ? And how can add syntax on in this file ?

quiliro@congresolibre.org
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Joined: 10/28/2010

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El 23/05/13 15:34, name at domain escribió:
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> I'm sorry but where is the file : ~/.vimrc ? And how can add syntax
on in this file ?

~/ is your home directory. For example mine is /home/quiliro
Inside that directory is .vimrc
The period before the name shows it is a hidden file.

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lembas
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Joined: 05/13/2010

And how can add syntax on in this file ?

vi ~/.vimrc

eddie
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Joined: 05/18/2013

did you get syntax highlighting working?

it is not necessary to create .vimrc file in your home dir & add the command to it.

When you tried the command directly from inside vim, it should have worked.
:syntax enable should not give error

Have you installed vim explicitly?
By default there is only a basic minimal vim installed which doesnt have syntax highlighting.

You should try this
sudo apt-get install vim