Enable syntax coloring on Jenkins with vim

When i’m offered the choice I will use Gitlab + Gitlab CI as it integrates everything that’s needed for a modern continuous deployment setup. But sometimes you are force to use Jenkins because it’s already available. It uses a java subset, called Grovy to facilitate building jobs. None of the normal IDE’s environments or texteditors supported the syntax: which makes it difficult to edit especially when you want to run complexer shell command due to the horrible escaping rules.

First install pathogen, which makes it easy to use plugins.

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle && \
curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim

To use it it needs one extra line in your .vimrc vim ~/.vimrc

"***pathogen stuff***"
execute pathogen#infect()

Then install the plugin

cd ~/.vim/bundle/
git clone git@github.com:martinda/Jenkinsfile-vim-syntax.git