[HOWTO] Turn on VIM syntax highlighting for Jenkinsfiles

Back in this week I was spending some time to write some pipeline definitions for Jenkins.
I’m using Vim all the time, so I had to take care of this missing function.

So you just need to add the following line to you ~/.vimrc:

autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *[jJ]enkinsfile set syntax=groovy

and the text editor will automatically load the Groovy syntax highlighting for all the files called like:

• mypipeline.jenkinsfile
• mypipeline.Jenkinsfile

However you still have the chance to set this option for individual files with adding the modeline magic:

// vi:syntax=groovy

This is considered to be a security breach and being a disabled Vim function at many distributions, but it’s definately working fine with Arch Linux 🙂
You can enable this with adding the following line to your ~/.vimrc:

set modeline