What needs to be added to .vimrc to make this work? about vim-cpp-modern HOT 8 CLOSED

Did you enable syntax in vimrc?

filetype plugin indent on
syntax on

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1. After you opened filename.c, check the output of :scriptnames.
2. And can you post a screenshot?

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I've done as you suggested, but it doesn't look any different. Here's the screenshot:

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Well, you show me a screenshot that contains almost only comments. scriptnames shows that the syntax file is loaded. What did you expect from the plugin? It looks like main() is highlighted, so it seems to work.

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@bfrg

Apologies for the confusion - I thought it was the output of scriptnames that you were interested in.

But no - at least I don't think it's working - vim-cpp-modern doesn't seem to be having any effect. The "syntax coloring" that you're seeing is from the "industry" coloring that I chose... using the color command IIRC. Here's another screenshot that might make that more clear:

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And here's a tree output showing where it's installed:

/home/pi/.vim
└── pack
    ├── colorschemes
    │   ├── opt
    │   └── start
    ├── others
    │   ├── opt
    │   └── start
    └── syntax
        ├── opt
        └── start
            └── vim-cpp-modern
                ├── after
                │   └── syntax
                │       ├── cpp.vim
                │       └── c.vim
                └── README.md

14 directories, 3 files

And here's my ~/.vimrc file:

set number
set cursorline
syntax on
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab
colorscheme industry
set laststatus=2
set statusline=%F
filetype plugin indent on
syntax on

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The function names are highlighted, so the plugin seems to work.

If you add let g:cpp_member_highlight = 1, the plugin will also highlight struct members, as in foo.bar or foo->bar.

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The function names are highlighted, so the plugin seems to work.

If you add let g:cpp_member_highlight = 1, the plugin will also highlight struct members, as in foo.bar or foo->bar.

Ah - so the syntax highlighting is adjustable then?

The files I'm working with now don't have a struct, but I did notice that (in some of my comments in the code) that when I typed in the word NOTE:, that seems to be highlighted - at least a different color from the rest of my comment.

Maybe I was expecting too much? I already had the "generic"(?) syntax option in .vimrc before adding vim-cpp-modern.

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