Highlighting doesn't work

[alexkravets]

Is there any reason, why this plugin may not work? I'm using MacVim 7.3.315 with Solarized theme, plugin is installed using pathogen.

Here is a list of plugins I'm having installed:

delimitMate
vim-coffee-script
vim-haskell
vim-ragtag
vimroom
nerdtree
vim-colors-solarized
vim-indexed-search
vim-rails
syntastic
vim-endwise
vim-less
vim-surround
tabular
vim-fugitive
vim-markdown
vim-unimpaired

Thanks.
Alex

[leonardehrenfried]

Can you check if the LESS file type is correctly detected? What is the output of :echo &ft?

[alexkravets]

It says "conf", what can be the reason of that?

[leonardehrenfried]

What exactly is the name of the file you are opening?

[alexkravets]

It's /Users/alex/dev/Mena Loans/css/elements.less

[leonardehrenfried]

Does the highlighting work when you set the filetype manually? :set filetype=less

[alexkravets]

No, it doesn't.

[leonardehrenfried]

So, the file type detection and the actual highlighting doesn't work. This leads me to believe that the plugin isn't correctly installed or loaded.

Can you have a look through the output of :scriptnames and check that vim-less/{ftplugin|indent|syntax}/less.vim are there?

[alexkravets]

Sorry, manual :set filetype=less command works.

[leonardehrenfried]

So it is the filetype detection then. My suspicion is that another plugin somehow sets the filetype to 'conf' before vim-less is being run. Can you grep for the string 'less' in your vimrc and in .vim/* and see if it is used anywhere else?

[alexkravets]

In these plugins less file extension is mentioned:

syntastic
vim-rails

[alexkravets]

Tried to remove both but no luck.

[alexkravets]

I've tried to remove all plugins except vim-less, with this vimrc:

"Use Vim settings, rather then Vi settings (much better!).
"This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect.
set nocompatible

"Custom
syntax enable
set background=dark
let g:solarized_termcolors=256
colorscheme solarized





if has("gui_running")
  set guioptions=-t
endif

"activate pathogen
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
call pathogen#helptags()

Same issue. Is there any other ideas or something that I can try?

[leonardehrenfried]

Ist vim-less/ftplugin/less.vim in :scriptnames?

[alexkravets]

 ~/.vim/bundle/vim-less/ftplugin/less.vim
 52: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-less/indent/less.vim
 53: /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.3-62/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/indent/css.vim
 54: ~/.vim/bundle/vim-less/syntax/less.vim

[leonardehrenfried]

I made a mistake. The file that detects and sets the file type is vim-less/ftdetect/less.vim. Is that file in your .vim directory?

If yes, what is its content?

Here is the file on Github: https://github.com/groenewege/vim-less/blob/master/ftdetect/less.vim

[alexkravets]

Yes, here you go:

autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.less setf less

[alexkravets]

Found the solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5602767/why-is-vim-not-detecting-my-coffescript-filetype

In config after syntax on had to add these lines:

filetype off
filetype on

[tak1n]

@alexkravets Thanks had the same problem 👍 :)