Vim Syntax Highlighting does not work

Question

I\'ve installed a fresh Arch Linux system on my laptop and downloaded the vim package.

I haven\'t altered the .vimrc file, but the syntax highlighting doesn\'t seem to w

Answer 1

Type

:syntax on

to get it to work. It is not a default option for vim. Probably in the other systems, it was set to on in the system default vimrc

Or put

syntax on

in ~/.vimrc