vimrc: add JavaScript syntax highlighting for JSON files

* Create an augroup to house syntax highlighting settings
* Add an autocmd that highlights JSON files using JavaScript syntax
  highlighting

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vimrc b/vimrc
index c7e9142..8614fd5 100644
--- a/vimrc
+++ b/vimrc
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@
 "       * Set ignorecase and smartcase
 "       * Add file encoding to statusline
 "
+"   2014.04.28:
+"       * Add augroup for custom syntax highlighting by filetype
+"       * Add autocmd to set .json files to use JavaScript syntax highlighting 
+"         and have a json filetype
+"
 
 
 " Pathogen
@@ -357,6 +362,14 @@ command! -nargs=* Wrap set wrap linebreak nolist
 "   autocmd bufwritepost .vimrc source $MYVIMRC
 " endif
 
+" Filetype syntax highlighting
+augroup filetype_syntax_highlighting
+	autocmd!
+	
+	" Set JSON files to JavaScript syntax
+	autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.json set filetype=json syntax=javascript
+augroup END
+
 
 
 " Project Settings