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Asked: 2026-06-17T04:27:42+00:00

I have added the coffee syntax and indent plugin for vim. Here is my

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I have added the coffee syntax and indent plugin for vim. Here is my ~/.vimrc:

colorscheme peachpuff
syntax on
filetype on
source /Users/(myusername)/.vim/vim-coffee-script-master/indent/coffee.vim
source /Users/(myusername)/.vim/vim-coffee-script-master/syntax/coffee.vim

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.js set filetype=javascript
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.coffee set filetype=coffee
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.rake set filetype=ruby
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.rb set filetype=ruby
au BufNewFile,BufRead Gemfile set filetype=ruby
au BufNewFile,BufRead Guardfile set filetype=ruby
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.less set filetype=scss

set autoindent
set expandtab
set softtabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2

This doesn’t have the syntax highlighting when I open a .coffee file. I then run :so ~/.vimrc while I am in the file and the syntax highlighting appears. Also, when I split the screen and run :so ~/.vimrc in one window it disappears in the other. Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The .vimrc file is for global settings. By sourcing coffee-specific scripts in there, you only temporarily apply them to the bare Vim during startup; any files you open aren’t affected by it.

    Instead, Vim has an elaborate mechanism for detecting various types of programming languages and other file types; cp. :help filetypes. Syntax files should be placed into ~/.vim/syntax/ and indents into ~/.vim/indent/. Then, once you :setf coffee (or if there is a detection defined for *.coffee), it’ll all be automatically activated.

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