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I had a bash script (ma_report.sh) that I was editing when my VPN connection died. So, when I reconnected, I recovered my changes and reopened the file. Everything looks fine except that there is no longer any syntax highlighting. Using ':syntax on' does not work. Other bash scripts in vim do have proper highlighting. I copied ma_report.sh to another file and opened that file. It has highlighting. I deleted ma_report.sh and copied that new file back to it. It has no highlighting. I deleted and moved the new file to ma_billing_report.sh. Again, no highlighting. I made a backup, deleted ma_billing_report.sh, and then made a new one and filled in some new content. Still no highlighting.

So, in short, anything with the name ma_billing_report.sh gets no highlighting. It appears that vim remembers the file and for some reason has marked it as having no highlighting. What gives? How can I get vim to forget what it thinks it knows about this file's highlighting properties and do what it's supposed to? Thanks.

If there's a session still hanging around then

Code:

vim -r <file>

may work.