Comments on: Setting a Language for vim Syntax Highlighting

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:15:41 +0000

Thanks for the help it was very useful

later

James Reuben Knowles — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:16:36 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Vladimir. I’ll update the post.

kaewgb — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:03:44 +0000

Exactly what I wanted. Thanks

Vladimir — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:35:05 +0000

Another way is :set filetype=language

Simple executing :set filetype will show current language used for syntax highlighting.

kevin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:41:19 +0000

Thanks for sharing!

kumbhar shrikant — Wed, 25 May 2011 07:18:37 +0000

WOW !!!!
Great help !!

Max — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:21:32 +0000

Thanks!

Daniel — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:45:48 +0000

Thank you very much for this. Exactly what I needed.

Peter — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:06:43 +0000

Yaay!

Jorge Medina — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:25:15 +0000

Thanks, I was just editing a xml config without xml headers or file extension so it wouldnt detect the syntax, :setf xml works.