Markdown syntax highlighting for vim

How to enable markdown syntax highlighting in vim?

By default vim does not highlight markdown syntax even if you have syntax on in your .vimrc. To enable it just add

autocmd BufNewFile,BufReadPost *.md set filetype=markdown

to your .vimrc and reload it (or close and reopen vim). Now you should have syntax highlighting for *.md files.

If it does not work ensure you have a recent vim version and the line syntax on in your .vimrc.

Source: https://github.com/tpope/vim-markdown