No syntax highlighting for .libsonnet in neovim (0.4.2)

[opoei]

Syntax highlighting works for .jsonnet files. However there is no syntax highlighting for libsonnet. Neovim version 0.4.2 built through brew.

[sparkprime]

It should work: https://github.com/google/vim-jsonnet/blob/master/ftdetect/jsonnet.vim
Any idea why it doesn't?

[opoei]

I wonder if the autocmd is not executing? If I open up a .libsonnet and execute setf jsonnet highlighting works.

[lukebond]

@opoei did you ever figure this out? i created a directory ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/plugins/start and cloned the vim-sonnet repo into there and it worked. it took me a while to figure out how to do it when i don't use a package manager. hope that helps

[samcgardner]

I added the following to init.vim and things started working:

autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.libsonnet set filetype=jsonnet

I haven't the foggiest why this helps though