Being Unix derived, it isn't a shock that OS X has the vim text editor pre installed. Nor is it surprising that this installation of vim is pre-built with a variety of features, including syntax highlighting for a variety of programming languages.
What is absolutely baffling, however, is that syntax highlighting appears to be disabled by default. I say "appears" because I don't remember if it was once working on my system at any point. What I do know is that earlier this afternoon, everything appeared monochrome in vim, yet the output of
ls /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/ looks like this:
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| Look at all those colors. And that's not even all of them. |
The solution is to either edit the system wide vim configuration file, or make a local copy of the file (and then edit it). The file in question is /usr/share/vim/vimrc. If you want to make a local copy, copy it into your home directory, and rename it to .vimrc. Whichever choice you make, edit the file and add the following line:
syntax on
And that should do it!
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