How to enable the Code/Syntax highlighting for groovy in VI?

Question

i was using Fedora for about six months. Recently I have been changed to Ubuntu. And here in Ubuntu, there is no Code/Synatax for groovy in VI editor,which was actually there in Fedora VI. How to enable that?

Answer 1

to enable syntax highlighting in vim you have to enable it thrugh vimrc. add

syntax on

to your vimrc. here is the typical script for groovy. I donot know if it is compatible with vi or not because I am also novice to vi/vim. You can install the full vim with

sudo apt-get install vim

Answer 2

or in vim editor type:

:syn on