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I've found Vim to have fantastic syntax highlighting with my preferred color schemes for Ruby and Python, but whenever I need to write Java code, it's like I haven't even turned on highlighting in the first place.
As you can see, keywords are highlighted, but there's no highlighting for parentheses or methods. In Sublime Text (a far less preferred editor by me), I see far better highlighting. There is italicization for class names and highlighting for mathematical operators. Vim looks sparse in comparison.
Is there any way, any way at all to get that luscious Sublime Text-style highlighting on Vim?
Have you tried using Vintage mode in Sublime Text? It changes all the key bindings to those vi(m) uses, yet still allows for powerful features of ST2 like better syntax highlighting and multiple selection editing.
– MattDMo – 2013-08-03T23:36:24.1672I do have Vintage Mode enabled in ST2, but I still prefer Vim because I can use it in the terminal, with several tmux panes open so that I can ssh into my remote machine simultaneously without leaving my editor for more than a second. – kunaicode – 2013-08-03T23:46:17.883
yes, there is that minor setback of using a GUI editor... – MattDMo – 2013-08-03T23:50:51.170