So, I have a bunch of .vim syntax files for different languages inside my $VIMRUNTIME/syntax folder.
How do I make vim use these syntax files ? Currently, vim only looks for syntax.vim (it complains if syntax.vim is not there) and so is there something I should include in syntax.vim for vim to recognize the other language syntax files ?
P.S:
I do have syntax on in my .vimrc
The only thing you need to do to is to add this line to your ~/.vimrc:
syntax on It turns filetype detection and syntax highlighting on so this command should open a syntax highlighted file.py:
$ vim file.py 
syntax on in my vimrc. But I get the same result - vim complains about the missing syntax.vim file.
$VIMRUNTIME? What is the path of your vimrc?With :syntax on, Vim should successfully load a syntax script from e.g. $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/java.vim when you do :set syntax=java.
You can verify with the :scriptnames output that this indeed is loaded. Also, you can capture a full log of a Vim session with vim -V20vimlog. After quitting Vim, examine the vimlog log file for what places Vim has searched.
