title: Enabling markdown highlighting in Vim
body: <p>I'm using Vim in a terminal on my MacBook Air with OS X Lion, and I can't seem to find a good plugin for Markdown syntax highlighting. </p>
  
  <p>So far I've tried the <a href="https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown/" rel="noreferrer">plasticboy</a> plugin and <a href="https://github.com/tpope/vim-markdown" rel="noreferrer">Tim Pope's plugin</a>. The plasticboy plugin worked OK but was causing white space at the end of lines to be highlighted, and I haven't figured out how to turn that off. (It's really annoying, because every time I hit <code>space</code> when I'm writing it highlights the character.)</p>
  
  <p>Tim's plugin didn't seem to do very much in the way of highlighting, other than maybe headers that use <code>###</code>. Code blocks and bullets are ignored. I might be missing something there. I do use the <code>.md</code> extension on my Markdown files, so it should be picking up the filetype.</p>
  
  <p>I've also seen a reference to Vim 7.3 having Markdown support built in, but without one of those two plugins I don't get any highlighting at all.</p>
  
  <p>Do either of these require specific color schemes to work?</p>