How to enable vim syntax highlighting in Ubuntu
- The source of vi/vim command is vim-tiny package which does not support syntax highlighting. Install vim:
sudo apt-get install vim
- Then open /etc/vim/vimrc and uncomment syntax on
- Replace
"syntax on
With
syntax on
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