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

I had this problem in Opensuse Leap 42.2 cloud. And solved it by installing vim-data

sudo zypper install vim-data

or just re-installing vim will include vim-data automatically.

sudo zypper remove vim
sudo zypper install vim