Syntax highlighting doesn't work with Vundle

[ishankhare07]

I've installed the plugin using Vundle
Plugin 'udalov/kotlin-vim'

Then I've made sure to run PluginInstall. Everything went fine and I've restarted the editor several times. But I get not syntax highlighting at all.

[udalov]

I'm not familiar with Vundle to confirm or deny if this is a problem. Do you have any other plugins installed by Vundle? Do they work?

[ishankhare07]

I have a working setup of Vundle in my vim configuration. Have about 20+ plugins setup through Vundle in properly working condition. So I can confirm that I doesn't have anything to do with my vim/Vundle configuration. There are instructions for installing this plugin through Vundle in the README as well

[ClaudeXin]

I have this problem too.

[TimBritton]

After typing :syntax on the syntax highlighting is working.

[TamasBarta]

Typing :syntax on doesn't help in my case. (I tried it, but it's already present in .vimrc)

[TamasBarta]

Not sure how Vundle comes in, but :set filetype=kotlin helps, so probably it's a problem with file type detection.

[sarevok-anchev]

Same problem here, it's as if the ftdetect/kotlin.vim file is not being read.

copying the contents of that file to ~/.vimrc makes things work as expected.

Not sure why ftdetect/kotlin.vim is not being read - if you look at for instance rust.vim (another plugin but for rust that also sets the filetype) it does essentially the same thing, and that works.

I doubt it's related to the installation method.

[jcw1993]

add this to your .vimrc:
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.kt set filetype=kotlin

it works for me.

[panda8z]

Not sure how Vundle comes in, but :set filetype=kotlin helps, so probably it's a problem with file type detection.

add syntax on " highligthing in your .vimrc file may work

[wilsoniya]

I was having this issue as well. I double checked my ~/.vimrc and I had a configuration mistake for vundle. The last two lines of the Vundle setup need to be swapped:

Before:

" ...

filetype plugin indent on                   " vundle required!
call vundle#end()                           " required

After:

" ...

call vundle#end()                           " required
filetype plugin indent on                   " vundle required!

Kinda weird bc afaict nothing else was broken 🤷‍♂️

[bravestarr]

Referring to the help of vundle, you should put filetype off before vundle specific configuration, but you may miss that command.