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    copied!<p>I am currently using VIM in the terminal and have perfect syntax highlighting happening. But then when I try to use gvim no matter what type of file or how many times I type: ":syntax on" I don't get any syntax highlighting. Any ideas anyone?</p> <p>Thank you.</p> <p>Here is my .vimrc for those who are interested:</p> <pre><code>" Turn on pathogen for all plug-ins installed after 9/13/2010 call pathogen#helptags() call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles() " My color theme for vim colors sorcerer " Disable line wrapping for now set nowrap " Enable the mouse even when vi is used in the terminal set mouse=a " Since I use linux, I want this let g:clipbrdDefaultReg = '+' " This shows what you are typing as a command. I love this! set showcmd " Automatically cd into the directory that the file is in autocmd BufEnter * execute "chdir ".escape(expand("%:p:h"), ' ') "Fix Vim's regex... nnoremap / /\v vnoremap / /\v " Gimme some breathing room at the bottom please... set scrolloff=5 " makes vim usable with screen set restorescreen " Disable the arrow keys... helps the learning map &lt;up&gt; &lt;nop&gt; map &lt;down&gt; &lt;nop&gt; map &lt;left&gt; &lt;nop&gt; map &lt;right&gt; &lt;nop&gt; imap &lt;up&gt; &lt;nop&gt; imap &lt;down&gt; &lt;nop&gt; imap &lt;left&gt; &lt;nop&gt; imap &lt;right&gt; &lt;nop&gt; "Kill error bells set noerrorbells set visualbell set t_vb= " Turn on spell check " set spell " Thesaurus!! set thesaurus+=/usr/share/myspell/dicts/mthesaur.txt " Some NERDTree love let NERDTreeBookmarksFile=expand("$HOME/.vim/NERDTreeBookmarks") let NERDTreeShowBookmarks=1 let NERDTreeQuitOnOpen=1 let NERDTreeHighlightCursorline=1 let NERDTreeShowFiles=1 let NERDTreeShowHidden=1 " Make swapping windows easier... map &lt;C-h&gt; &lt;C-w&gt;h map &lt;C-j&gt; &lt;C-w&gt;j map &lt;C-k&gt; &lt;C-w&gt;k map &lt;C-l&gt; &lt;C-w&gt;l " Allow for buffers to be hidden so that they need not be closed to go to " another file set hidden " Turn on incremental search set incsearch set smartcase " Long history is long set history=1000 set undolevels=1000 " No need for a vi backup file set nobackup " Colors!! set t_Co=256 " Compatibility set nocompatible set formatprg=par " Syntastic!! let g:syntastic_enable_signs=1 let g:syntastic_auto_loclist=1 let g:syntastic_quiet_warnings=0 " For soft wrapping text command! -nargs=* Wrap set wrap linebreak nolist set showbreak=… " Sandro spacing preferences here set number set expandtab set autoindent set smartindent set softtabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set shiftround " Sandro key mapping here map &lt;F2&gt; :NERDTreeToggle&lt;CR&gt; "allow backspacing over everything in insert mode set backspace=indent,eol,start set showmode "show current mode down the bottom "Setting the status line... set statusline=%f "tail of the filename "display a warning if the file format isn't Unix set statusline+=%#warningmsg# set statusline+=%{&amp;ff!='unix'?'['.&amp;ff.']':''} set statusline+=%* "display a warning if file encoding isn't UTf-8 set statusline+=%#warningmsg# set statusline+=%{(&amp;fenc!='utf-8'&amp;&amp;&amp;fenc!='')?'['.&amp;fenc.']':''} set statusline+=%* set statusline+=%h "help file flag set statusline+=%y "filetype set statusline+=%r "read only flag set statusline+=%m "modified flag "Syntastic!! " set statusline+=%#warningmsg# " set statusline+=%{SyntasticStatuslineFlag()} " set statusline+=%* " Auto completion options set wildmode=list:longest "Change tab completion to be like Bash's set wildignore=*.o,*.obj,*~,*.swp,*.pyc "Files to ignore on auto complete "display tabs and trailing spaces set list " Use the same symbols as TextMate for tabstops and EOLs set listchars=tab:▸\•,extends:»,precedes:«,trail:• let g:pydiction_location='~/.vim/after/ftplugin/pydiction/complete-dict' set sm set ai let java_highlight_all=1 let java_highlight_functions="style" let java_allow_cpp_keywords=1 set tags=~/.tags set complete=.,w,b,u,t,i command W w !sudo tee % &gt; /dev/null " IMPORTANT: win32 users will need to have 'shell slash' set so that latex " can be called correctly. "set shell slash " IMPORTANT: grep will sometimes skip displaying the file name if you " search in a singe file. This will confuse Latex-Suite. Set your grep " program to always generate a file-name. "set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $* " OPTIONAL: Starting with Vim 7, the filetype of empty .tex files defaults to " 'plaintex' instead of 'tex', which results in vim-latex not being loaded. " The following changes the default filetype back to 'tex': " let g:tex_flavor='latex' filetype on " enables filetype detection filetype plugin on " enables filetype specific plug-ins syntax on filetype indent on " OPTIONAL: This enables automatic indentation as you type. " VIM 7.3 features here... if v:version &gt;= 703 set relativenumber set undofile endif </code></pre>
 

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