How to get syntax highlighting for golang in vim?

[krishna...@gmail.com]

I am a vim n00b trying to setup a cloud instance for golang development, and have a hard time configuring vim to get syntax highlighting for golang.

Many blogs/articles online recommend vim-go, & I have been unable to get it to work. After following all the steps, I never get syntax highlighting.

Since, all I need is syntax highlighting (with a good enough color scheme!), vim-go seems to be too heavy for that. I use normal go CLIs to get other stuff done, & its good learning too. :)

I already have pathogen installed.

Any pointers as to how I set up syntax highlighting for golang in vim?

[Jan Mercl]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 3:37 PM <krishna...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Many blogs/articles online recommend vim-go, & I have been unable to get it to work. After following all the steps, I never get syntax highlighting.

Did you restart vim after configuring the .vimrc file? (Or reload it with :so % while editig it?) Is your vim a recent version?

By coincidence, I started using vim-go just a few days ago. I followed the instructions in the readme exactly and, with firstly installing pathogen, it just worked for me without any trouble whatsoever.

Here's my full .vimrc, if that can help:

==========

execute pathogen#infect()

syntax on

filetype plugin indent on

map <F2> @v

nmap <cr> :mak editor<cr>

nmap <F12> :noh<cr>

set autoread

set autowrite

set cc=80

set columns=160

set cursorline

set hlsearch

set incsearch

set lines=50

set modeline

set number

set tabpagemax=100

set spell spelllang=en_us

winpos 550 72

let maplocalleader = ","

let mapleader = ","

au Filetype go nnoremap <buffer> <LocalLeader>k

    \ :exe 'GoImport ' . expand('<cword>')<CR>

" Search for selected text, forwards or backwards.

vnoremap <silent> * :<C-U>

  \let old_reg=getreg('"')<Bar>let old_regtype=getregtype('"')<CR>

  \gvy/<C-R><C-R>=substitute(

  \escape(@", '/\.*$^~['), '\_s\+', '\\_s\\+', 'g')<CR><CR>

  \gV:call setreg('"', old_reg, old_regtype)<CR>

vnoremap <silent> # :<C-U>

  \let old_reg=getreg('"')<Bar>let old_regtype=getregtype('"')<CR>

  \gvy?<C-R><C-R>=substitute(

  \escape(@", '?\.*$^~['), '\_s\+', '\\_s\\+', 'g')<CR><CR>

  \gV:call setreg('"', old_reg, old_regtype)<CR>

let g:go_auto_type_info = 1

au FileType go nmap <Leader>ds <Plug>(go-def-split)

au FileType go nmap <Leader>dv <Plug>(go-def-vertical)

au FileType go nmap <Leader>dt <Plug>(go-def-tab)

au FileType go nmap <Leader>e <Plug>(go-rename)

==================================================

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-j

[Matt Silverlock]

> Since, all I need is syntax highlighting (with a good enough color scheme!), vim-go seems to be too heavy for that. I use normal go CLIs to get other stuff done, & its good learning too. :)

You can just ignore all the other features of vim-go until you want to use them (godef, godoc and gobuild being the most useful). Most won't work until you explicitly bind keys to them, anyway!

[Steve Mynott]

If you using a recent vim (I used 7.4) without extra plugins all you
need do for colour syntax is to type ":syntax on" in command mode (or
add "syntax on" in .vimrc).

S

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[Steve Mynott]

Also if you have a black terminal background "set bg=dark" which will
make the colours look a lot better.

S