Syntax Highlighting in Vim

[Thomas Moore]

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04, and from there installed Julia through githib. Now, when I open a .jl file in Vim, it seems there's some sort of syntax highlighting which works, but it's inconsistent (words like "function", "print" and "if" are coloured, but others like "for" and "while" are not.)

Does anyone have any idea what's wrong here? Alternatively, I'm not really attached to any editor yet in Ubuntu, and so if there's an easier way to set up another editor with syntax highlighting, feel free to recommend it.

Thanks

[Isaiah Norton]

I'm not sure what it is defaulting to, but vim does not have Julia highlighting built in (yet). See this package for proper support:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia-vim

[Thomas Moore]

I got it working now :) This is probably quite obvious to most users, but I didn't know a new VIM user needs to make a .vim file in ~/.vim, and if this doesn't exist the manual install won't work. I hope this helps someone.

[陶旭]

Well, just as you said, the manual method does not work since there is no .vim file in my home directory? Could you share your successful installation experience?

[Ratan Sur]

It seems like vim thinks ; is the comment char for julia when it's actually #. Do you know how one might fix this?

[Tero Frondelius]

If you are new to Vim, you might also want to consider Juno http://junolab.org/.