I was wondering how can I get this colorful syntax highlighting in vim on my Mac. I didn't add any libraries on my ubuntu desktop to get the syntax as shown in the image. Is it possible to get this behavior on Mac as well?
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What exactly do you mean? In your editor? What editor? – Lukas Graf Sep 23 '14 at 18:25
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Sry. I want this behavior in vim – KKa Sep 23 '14 at 18:27
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3That can be done with `:syntax on` in `vim`. [Add it to your `.vimrc`](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11272501/vim-default-syntax-highlighting) to make it persistent. – Lukas Graf Sep 23 '14 at 18:28
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In Mac OSX edit your .vimrc file:
vi ~/.vimrc
and add the following:
filetype plugin indent on
syntax on
Save and close (:x) and try opening your python file again.
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It is not clear what you are referring to. If you are using a text editor in your terminal such as vim, then there is probably a plugin you can install to enable syntax highlighting. If you just want to style a Python file, then you might want to check out pygments
See also:
Alternatively, you might want to try out iPython
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