Syntax highlight for Sass is not working in Vim.

Question

I just downloaded a Vim plugin for Sass syntax highlight.

The instructions say:

install details put it into syntax directory and add sass filetype

au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.sass
setfiletype sass

in your filetype.vim

I already placed sass.vim in vimfiles/syntax/ (using windows).

And created a filetype.vim file with the code above (au! Buf...) in all the following directories:

• vimfiles/
• vimfiles/ftdetect
• vimfiles/ftplugins

but no one worked (I even typed the au! Buf... code in my vimrc).

My .sass files still looking like this:

any suggestions?

Answer 1

I don't know an easy fix, but try checking some vim settings with the following commands:

• Does enabling syntax explicitly fix your problem? :syntax enable
• Is filetype detection on? :filetype
• Does vim recognize this as a sass file? :set filetype?
• Check to make sure your script directories are in the runtime path :set runtimepath?
• Does manually loading the syntax file change anything? :runtime! vimfiles/syntax/sass.vim
• Also check if syntax highlighting works for other filetypes.