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Maybe a Vim expert can help me out. I’ve used Vim for a long time, but never with any plugins, and only a few lines in my .vimrc.

My problem is that the syntax highlighting, specifically for TypeScript is pretty bad. I have a regular expression (for parsing front matter) that seems to cause Vim’s syntax highlighting to go haywire (it stops and sometimes crashes).

Is anyone aware of a way to get more reliable syntax highlighting in Vim, ideally with a minimum of fuss?



using lsp with typescript-language-server?

most of the neovim setup scripts (lazyvim etc) get this set up automatically


An LSP seems overkill for syntax highlighting? This seems more like a treesitter thing.

(Mind you, I have no experience with TypeScript, just saying this as a general remark on what those components do.)


Oh, my initial research (reading the Neovim docs) indicated that setting up Neovim would require a lot of manual configuration for getting an LSP working. I will give it another look, thanks!

Most blog posts I found seemed to assume you already had a gigantic custom config, plug-in manager, etc. I couldn’t find a “how to set up better highlighting and/or an LSP for people who know Vim but don’t know anything about configuration” guide.




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