在vim中启用语法突出显示会导致警告消息

Question

I'm wanting to turn on syntax highlighting in vim using the .exrc file and using the following commands:

syntax on
syntax=html

Every time I open a file I get the following message now:

No Syntax items defined for this buffer

I'm using VIM version 7.3 on OS X 10.10.4

Answer 1

Use the following in your ~/.vimrc file:

filetype plugin indent on
syntax on

For more information see:

:h :filetype
:h :syntax
:h filetype

Answer 2

If you're trying to set 'syntax' manually, you'd need a :set syntax=html . But the simpler way is to just open foo.html and :syntax on . That should trigger a few settings (like filetype=html and syntax=html .

For more info, see Vim's :help on :syntax , 'filetype' , and :autocmd .