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

Answer 2

vi /etc/profile
alias vi=vim

maybe you use vi instead of vim

Answer 3

Another reason syntax highlighting won't work is you might have a theme/colorscheme set that VIM cannot find.

colorscheme darkblue

Either delete the line or comment it out:

"colorscheme darkblue