Activate Go Syntax highlighting for VIM in Ubuntu 14.04

This seems to be the shortest step to enable Go's syntax highlighting out of the box on Ubuntu 14.04 server.

I haven't tried the desktop edition but it should be similar.


Install  vim-syntax-go

sudo apt-get install vim-syntax-go

Create the .vim directory in your home directory



mkdir .vim
mkdir ~/.vim/syntax
cp /usr/share/vim/addons/syntax/go.vim ~/.vim/syntax/   

mkdir ~/.vim/ftdetect 

cp /usr/share/vim/addons/ftdetect/gofiletype.vim ~/.vim/ftdetect/