Feel free to steal or add your own solutions to this repo.
Blessings, Henry.
Install this plugin for syntax-highlighting (follow steps under) https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-vim
Copy (or symlink) the contents of the plugin repo into the vim application support directory:
git clone git://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-vim.git
cd julia-vim
mkdir -p ~/.vim
cp -R * ~/.vim
Julia should appear as a file type and be automatically detected for files with the .jl extension.
Add this to your .vimrc
" Mapping <F9> to run julia program
autocmd FileType julia nnoremap <buffer> <F9> :exec '!julia' shellescape(@%, 1)<cr>