How to Enable Elixir Syntax Highlighting in Vim By Default?

[nelsonic]

This question can be broken down into 4 parts/sections:

• How to enable syntax highlighting
• How to highlight Elixir syntax
• How to define this in a configuration file
• How to ensure that our configuration file is always loaded when we open a new Vim session.

[nelsonic]

Searched for: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+enable+syntax+highlighting+in+vim
(pretty obvious query starting point)

Reading this: https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204644480/enabling-vi-syntax-colors

[nelsonic]

Reading this guide got me the first two lines of my ~/.vimrc file:

[nelsonic]

When I open an .eex file, e.g: mvim rumbl/lib/rumbl_web/templates/page/index.html.eex

I see a lifeless file:

If you're wondering what this file is, see: https://github.com/nelsonic/practice/issues/55

[nelsonic]

From my research: https://www.google.com/search?q=Elixir+syntax+highlighting+in+vim
This appears to be a good option: https://github.com/elixir-editors/vim-elixir

[nelsonic]

Picking @samhstn's brains on this: samhstn/my-config#45

[nelsonic]

Progress:

Using: https://github.com/slashmili/alchemist.vim

[nelsonic]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6262015

[SimonLab]

I'm currently also testing vim-elixir (just had enough of Atom freezing my computer today!)
I'm not using any plugins manager like pathogen or vundle as it seems that vim version 8 provide a way to install plugins with the "packages" feature:
see https://vimhelp.org/repeat.txt.html#packages
and http://vimcasts.org/episodes/packages/ for a short video on how to install plugins directly with vim 8