Ubuntu – How to enable syntax highlighting for groovy in Vi

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I was using Fedora for about six months, and recently switched to Ubuntu.

Here in Ubuntu, there is no code/syntax highlighting for groovy in Vi editor, which was actually there in Fedora Vi. How to enable that?

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To enable syntax highlighting in vim you have to enable it through .vimrc.
Add:

syntax on

to your .vimrc.

Here is the typical script for groovy. I do not know if it is compatible with vi or not because I am also novice to vi/vim. You can install the full vim with:

sudo apt-get install vim

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