I'm trying to figure out how to get Syntax highlighting or getting the colorscheme in my .vimrc to work with my current VIM instance, version 7.4.335, installed via Homebrew. I used Pathogen to download a lot of plugins and I can tell it's working with a few of them, Syntastic and NERDTree for instance, but when I open say a GO file I don't get any syntax highlighting.
I'm fairly new to VIM and Pathogen but I'd prefer to stay with VIM over MacVim, I use it for quick scripting and prototyping and the speed of startup is the main reason I want to keep using it instead of waiting for a GUI to load. Here's what's in my .vimrc
set runtimepath+=~/.vim_runtime
set mouse=a
set term=xterm
source ~/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/basic.vim
source ~/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/filetypes.vim
source ~/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/plugins_confic.vim
source ~/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/extened.vim
try
source ~/.vim_runtime/my_configs.vim
catch
endtry
set nocompatible
call pathogen#infect()
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on
colorscheme solarized
let g:soloarized_termcolors=256
"ack
let g:ack_autofold_results = 1
"syntastic
let g:syntastic_check_on_open = 1
let g:syntastic_check_on_wq = 1
let g:syntastic_enable_signs = 1
let g:syntastic_auto_loc_list = 1
let g:syntastic_error_symbol = "X"
let g:syntastic_style_error_symbol = ">"
let g:syntastic_warning_symbol = "1"
let g:syntastic_sytle_warning_symbol = ">"
I've checked these posts but they don't seem to quite fix my problem:
Why does Pathogen "magically" solve Vim syntax highlighting problems?
Vim: Can't get pathogen to load bundles
Syntax highlighting in terminal vim but not gVIM
Thanks in advance!
I don't think you used Pathogen to "download a lot of plugins".
Anyway…
set runtimepath+=~/.vim_runtime
That line is pointless: your plugins and colorschemes and whatnot are supposed to go into ~/.vim/
and nowhere else.
set term=xterm
That line is useless: Vim is smart enough to know by itself what terminal type it's executed in.
source ~/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/basic.vim
source ~/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/filetypes.vim
source ~/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/plugins_confic.vim
source ~/.vim_runtime/vimrcs/extened.vim
Again, put your stuff in ~/.vim/
and there's no point whatsoever to split your config like that, especially if you are a beginner. There's a typo on the 4th line, by the way.
Also, the whole point of the runtimepath…
line at the top of your ~/.vimrc
is to tell Vim where to search for vim scripts with the :runtime
command so, even using :source
, here, is wrong.
try
source ~/.vim_runtime/my_configs.vim
catch
endtry
You might as well try/catch
the four others. Again, just put all that in your ~/.vimrc
.
set nocompatible
nocompatible
is set when Vim finds a ~/.vimrc
file or a ~/.vim/vimrc
file so that line is useless too.
call pathogen#infect()
That line should be execute pathogen#infect()
, as per Pathogen's README.
colorscheme solarized
let g:soloarized_termcolors=256
The let…
line acts as an option for that colorscheme, it should come before the colorscheme…
line and… it has a typo.
Also, set term=xterm
forces Vim to run in 8/16 colors while your solarized option tells solarized and Vim to assume 256 colors. Make up your mind.
Basically, your ~/.vimrc
is a mess… let's clean it up, shall we?
execute pathogen#infect()
syntax on
filetype plugin indent on
set mouse=a
" here comes all the stuff from your other `vimrcs`
let g:solarized_termcolors=256
colorscheme solarized
let g:ack_autofold_results = 1
let g:syntastic_check_on_open = 1
let g:syntastic_check_on_wq = 1
let g:syntastic_enable_signs = 1
let g:syntastic_auto_loc_list = 1
let g:syntastic_error_symbol = "X"
let g:syntastic_style_error_symbol = ">"
let g:syntastic_warning_symbol = "1"
let g:syntastic_sytle_warning_symbol = ">"