VIM is an awesome text editor and syntax highlighting is one of its many awesome features. To enable VIM syntax highlighting globally for all users, simply uncomment “Syntax on” in the VIM config file (which is typically /etc/vimrc). So long as your VIM version supports syntax highlighting, VIM will automagically highlight syntax for most common files. That’s great, but sometimes you might run into a situation where you’re working with a file VIM won’t automagically highlight syntax for. Let’s say you really, really would like it to. Here’s how….