Enable sytax highlight in VIM on ubuntu

you can edit or create .vimrc file in your home directory and add this line to it
:syntax enable

or for public users you can do this:

1. Create a root terminal
2. Edit the file /etc/vim/vimrc
3. Search for the word syntax
4. Remove the double quote mark at the beginning of the line (quote marks to VIM are comments in configuration files)

also you may need to install vim-full