Why don't I have the syntax highlighting when editing files like *.sh *.xml,etc? After commands like "syntax on",still nothing happened. below is my /etc/vim/vimrc,what else should I do to turn the syntax highlighting on? Thanks, shell.
set runtimepath=~/.vim,/etc/vim,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vim63,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/addons/after,~/.vim/after set nocompatible " Use Vim defaults instead of 100% vi compatibility set backspace=indent,eol,start " more powerful backspacing set autoindent " always set autoindenting on set textwidth=0 " Don't wrap lines by default set viminfo='20,\"50 " read/write a .viminfo file, don't store more than " 50 lines of registers set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history set ruler " show the cursor position all the time set suffixes=.bak,~,.swp,.o,.info,.aux,.log,.dvi,.bbl,.blg,.brf,.cb,.ind,.idx,.ilg,.inx,.out,.toc if &term =~ "xterm-debian" || &term =~ "xterm-xfree86" || &term =~ "xterm" set t_Co=16 set t_Sf=[3%dm set t_Sb=[4%dm endif vnoremap p <Esc>:let current_reg = @"<CR>gvdi<C-R>=current_reg<CR><Esc> syntax on if has("autocmd") " Enabled file type detection " Use the default filetype settings. If you also want to load indent files " to automatically do language-dependent indenting add 'indent' as well. filetype plugin on endif " has ("autocmd") augroup filetype au BufRead reportbug.* set ft=mail au BufRead reportbug-* set ft=mail augroup END try if filereadable('/etc/papersize') let s:papersize = matchstr(system('/bin/cat /etc/papersize'), '\p*') if strlen(s:papersize) let &printoptions = "paper:" . s:papersize endif unlet! s:papersize endif catch /E145/ endtry if filereadable("/etc/vim/vimrc.local") source /etc/vim/vimrc.local endif if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running") syntax on set hlsearch endif