vim activate Syntax highlighting on Debian/ Ubuntu

Simon | September 9, 2008

1. Install vim

aptitude install vim

2. Edit the vimrc

vim /etc/vim/vimrc

3. remove the quotes in front of syntax highlighting

" Vim5 and later versions support syntax highlighting. Uncommenting the next
" line enables syntax highlighting by default.
syntax on

Thats it enjoy the colours :)

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  1. Syntax Highlighting in Vim aktivieren - Vibora - das Linux Weblog says:
    January 13, 2010 at 8:49 pm

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  2. Web Hosting says:
    January 26, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    Nice one mate, finally syntax highliting for VI!

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