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I am programming some bash scripts in Terminal with VIM, on OSX 10.8, but there is no syntax-highlighting for bash. How can I enable it?

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    Are you talking about syntax highlighting in some editor in terminal (e.g. vim, nano, emacs, etc), or are you talking about highlighting for your prompt (which isn't really syntax highlighting).
    – Jamie Wong
    Nov 20, 2012 at 20:18
  • Sorry, I meant for the VIM editor.
    – B3y0nd3r
    Nov 21, 2012 at 8:13

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i have been using macvim http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ for a long time, it has syntax highlighting. just enable syntax highlighting using ":syntax on" in your .vimrc.

don't forget to make an alias for macvim in your environment. just like this: alias vim='/Applications/MacVim/mvim'

the stock vim (/usr/bin/vim) should have also has syntax highlighting too.

oh, in case you need full GUI editor, try textmate, it's free now

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  • Thanks. Same for MacVim as stock Vim , the order :syntax on work pretty well. By the way, thanks for the suggestion, I'll check textmate out
    – user32004
    Nov 21, 2012 at 11:48

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