# Highlighting CommonMark syntax in Vim

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/highlighting-commonmark-syntax-in-vim/3450>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 5, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/highlighting-commonmark-syntax-in-vim/3450 "2020-05-05T22:23:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon62197958](https://cdn.commonmark.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@anon62197958](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/anon62197958)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/highlighting-commonmark-syntax-in-vim/3450/1 "2020-05-05T22:23:47Z")

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Is there a solution for highlighting CommonMark syntax in **Vim**?

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**Author:** ![alerque](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/alerque/32/350_2.png) [@alerque](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/alerque)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/highlighting-commonmark-syntax-in-vim/3450/2 "2020-05-14T09:18:06Z")

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No not yet.

Since Pandoc is headed the direction of standardizing on CommonMark, we have been discussing how to accomplish this for the [vim-pandoc-syntax](https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc-syntax) plugin. See [issue #327](https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc-syntax/issues/327) for relevant discussion. If anybody has input on this we’d love to hear it. A fully strict CommonMark compliant syntax plugin for VIM would be awesome, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be easy to achieve.

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**Author:** ![alerque](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/alerque/32/350_2.png) [@alerque](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/alerque)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/highlighting-commonmark-syntax-in-vim/3450/3 "2020-05-14T09:50:00Z")

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See also [this issue](https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown/issues/484) where I just reached out to the developer of the most robust [vim-markdown](https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown) plugin I know of about the issue of targeting the CommonMark spec.

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**Author:** ![anon62197958](https://cdn.commonmark.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@anon62197958](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/anon62197958)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/highlighting-commonmark-syntax-in-vim/3450/4 "2020-05-17T01:45:28Z")

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Thank you for response, I supported your comments on GitHub.