Execute the following commands on a RedHat/Fedora/Centos box to update vim to support asterisk syntax highlighting: [ -d /usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/ ] && cd /usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/ [ -d /usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/ ] && cd /usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/ wget http://files.bluecrow.net/asterisk/vim/asterisk.vim wget http://files.bluecrow.net/asterisk/vim/asterisk_voicemail.vim cd wget http://files.bluecrow.net/asterisk/vim/vim-asterisk-patch.txt [ -d /usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/ ] && cat vim-asterisk-patch.txt >> /usr/share/vim/vim63/filetype.vim [ -d /usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/ ] && cat vim-asterisk-patch.txt >> /usr/share/vim/vim70/filetype.vim rm -f vim-asterisk-patch.txt