cp -r ftdetect ftplugin syntax  ~/.vim/

Or (preferably) use one of the popular tools to (sanely) manage plugins:

• Pathogen: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen
• Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle

You will also need to specify the following settings in your ~/.vimrc:

set nocompatible
filetype plugin indent on

Note: It's possible you may be presented with an error stating something similar to:

"E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: filetype plugin inden t on"

If you get this, specify the following settings in your ~/.vimrc instead:

set nocompatible
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set expandtab

Alternately, files can be copied into any other directory where vim looks for its runtime files, like /etc/vim/. Command :set runtimepath will show all such paths. Read :help runtimepath for more info.

syntax/sls.vim

syntax file for editing yaml + jinja sls files.

ftplugin/sls.vim

Filetype plugin with good default config for SLS files. Configures suitable wrapping, folding and indenting. Added features:

• All tabs are converted to spaces.
• Tab key indents by 2 spaces.
• Commets will be hardwrapped (with added leading #) This is done by setting formatoptions.
• <Space> key will try to fold/unfold an area.
• Visually selected block might be indented and unindented by keys '<' and '>', keeping the visual selection selected.
• Improved indenting of yaml expressions with custom indenting function/
• Visual warning for non-ascii characters (which are not allowed in yaml)

ftdetect/sls.vim

Detect SLS file by postfix .sls

• Powerline: https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline
• NERDTree: https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree
• Gundo: https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim/
• TabMan: https://github.com/kien/tabman.vim
• PythonMode: https://github.com/klen/python-mode
• FuzzyFinder: https://github.com/vim-scripts/FuzzyFinder
• CtrlP: http://kien.github.com/ctrlp.vim/