Go in Vim
The standard Go distribution includes a Go syntax file for Vim in go/misc/vim/
.
Installation Instructions
Place $GOROOT/misc/vim/syntax/go.vim
in ~/.vim/syntax/
and put the following in ~/.vim/ftdetect/go.vim
:
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set filetype=go
Extras and Alternative Files
An alternative indent file for Vim by Alecs King can be found here.
Autocompletion
The gocode daemon by nsf includes a vim script to do autocompletion.
Other
See the vim-golang repo in Github for alternative syntax highlight, auto-indentation, gofmt and other useful scripts and plugins.
And this reddit post for various ways to integrate gofmt
with vim.