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Enable Swift Syntax Highlighting in Vim
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How to Enable Syntax Highlighting in Vim for Swift

Make a shallow git clone of the official Swift repo and make a symbolic link from Swift's utils vim directory into ~/.vim/pack/bundle/start:

mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/bundle/start
cd ~/Developer
git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:apple/swift.git
cd swift
ln -s ~/Developer/swift/utils/vim ~/.vim/pack/bundle/start/swift

Add the syntax highlighting to ~/.vimrc:

syntax on
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