To turn on or off color syntax highlighting in the vim editor, you can use the syntax
command.
To turn on syntax highlighting, type the following command and press Enter
:
:syntax on
To turn off syntax highlighting, type the following command and press Enter
:
:syntax off
You can also use the syntax enable
and syntax disable
commands to achieve the same result.
You can also set syntax highlighting as the default setting by adding the following line to your ~/.vimrc
configuration file:
syntax on
This will enable syntax highlighting whenever you start vim.
Note that syntax highlighting may not work properly if the filetype of the file you are editing is not detected correctly. To force the filetype to be detected as a certain type, you can use the :set filetype=<filetype>
command, where <filetype>
is the file type you want to set (e.g., python
, html
, c
, etc.).