Add Jinja Syntax Highlighting To Neovim
I'm using the Minijinja mj Rust crate to make the templates for Neopolitan neo . It's a solid format but it's a bit hard to look at. Especially without syntax highlighting which doesn't appear to be available by default in Neovim g:nvim .
I tried a plugin plug to add the highlights but caused a bunch of errors every time I started up.
This is the process I ended up going with :
- Create the directory :
[TODO: Code shorthand span ]
- Download the [TODO: Code shorthand span ] and [TODO: Code shorthand span ] files from this page and put them in the [TODO: Code shorthand span ] directory
- Make a new file at :
[TODO: Code shorthand span ]
and put this in it :
au Syntax jinja runtime! syntax/htmljinja.vim
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.jinja,*.j2 setf jinjaThat got syntax highlighting working for me. It doesn't do automatic indention. That would be nice but if I had to choose one or the other I'd choose syntax highlighting over the indention.
I've forked the other repo so can take a look at it as well.
- The plugin with the errors is two years old so I'm not surprised it has problems
- The syntax files are closer to 20yrs old, but thankfully they still work just fine
Footnotes And References
- MiniJinja
"a powerful template engine for Rust with minimal dependencies"
- Neopolitan
My plain - text format for websites
- Neovim
The "hyperextensible Vim - based text editor" that's my daily driver. (Though I'm not picky, I use VSCode, Sublime Text, and Emacs too)
- Jinja for Vim
This is the plugin I tried that kinda worked but threw a bunch of errors.
- •Jinja
The home page of the Jinja project
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