Yes, Vim includes built-in syntax highlighting for Go. However, there are better alternatives maintained by the community:
- Official Vim-Go Plugin (Recommended)
fatih/vim-go is the most popular Vim plugin for Go development.
It provides syntax highlighting, formatting, linting, code navigation, and more.
To install with Vim-Plug:
vim
Copy
Edit
Plug 'fatih/vim-go', { 'do': ':GoUpdateBinaries' }
Then, restart Vim and run :GoInstallBinaries.
- Basic Syntax File
If you don’t want the full plugin, you can just use the Go syntax file from Vim’s runtime.
It's typically located in:
bash
Copy
Edit
~/.vim/syntax/go.vim
Or you can manually install from:
vim/vim/runtime/syntax/go.vim