diff --git a/data/lib/red/presets.lua b/data/lib/red/presets.lua
index 9ec6fcb..729a8cb 100644
--- a/data/lib/red/presets.lua
+++ b/data/lib/red/presets.lua
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ return {
   {"%.go$",
     { ts = 8,
       spaces_tab = false,
-      trim_spaces = true
+      trim_spaces = true,
+      syntax = "go",
     }
   },
   {"%.py$",
diff --git a/data/lib/red/syntax/c.lua b/data/lib/red/syntax/c.lua
index fa448b8..ea76bad 100644
--- a/data/lib/red/syntax/c.lua
+++ b/data/lib/red/syntax/c.lua
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ local function number(ctx, txt, i)
 end
 
 local col = {
-  col = 0,
+  col = scheme.default,
   keywords = {
     { "!", "%%", "&&", "&", "(", ")", "*", "+",
       ",", "-", "/", ":", ";", "<", "=", ">", "?", "[",
diff --git a/data/lib/red/syntax/go.lua b/data/lib/red/syntax/go.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bf52ed5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/lib/red/syntax/go.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+local scheme = require "red/syntax/scheme"
+
+local function number(ctx, txt, i)
+  local n = ''
+  local start = i
+  while txt[i] and txt[i]:find("[0-9]") do
+    n = n .. txt[i]
+    i = i + 1
+  end
+  if n ~= '' then return i - start end
+  return false
+end
+
+local col = {
+  col = scheme.default,
+  keywords = {
+    { "<-", "+", "&", "(", ")", "-", "|", "<", "[", "]", "*", "^",
+      ">", "{", "}", "/", "=", ",", ";", "%", "!", ".", ":",
+      col = scheme.operator },
+    {
+      "break", "case", "chan", "const", "continue", "default",
+      "defer", "else", "fallthrough", "for", "func", "go",
+      "goto", "if", "import", "interface", "map", "package",
+      "range", "return", "select", "struct", "switch", "type",
+      "var",
+      col = scheme.keyword, word = true
+    },
+    {
+      "uint8", "uint16", "uint32", "uint64", "int8",
+      "int16", "int32", "int64", "float32", "float64",
+      "byte", "uint", "int", "float", "uintptr",
+      "string", "bool",
+
+      "nil", "true", "false", "iota", "cap", "close",
+      "closed", "len", "make", "new", "panic",
+      "panicln", "print",
+      col = scheme.lib, word = true,
+    },
+    {
+      "tar", "zip", "bufio", "bytes", "cmd", "compress",
+      "container", "crypto", "database", "debug", "encoding",
+      "errors", "expvar", "flag", "fmt", "hash", "html",
+      "image", "suffixarray", "race", "singleflight",
+      "syscall", "testenv", "trace", "io", "log", "math",
+      "mime", "net", "os", "path", "reflect", "regexp",
+      "runtime", "sort", "strconv", "strings", "sync",
+      "testing", "text", "time", "unicode", "unsafe",
+      "vendor", "unicode", "functions", "init",
+      col = scheme.lib, word = true,
+    },
+    { number, col = scheme.number },
+  },
+  { -- string
+    start = "`",
+    stop = "`",
+    col = scheme.string,
+  },
+  { -- string
+    start = '"',
+    stop = '"',
+    keywords = {
+      { '\\"', '\\\\' },
+    },
+    col = scheme.string,
+  },
+  { -- string
+    start = "'",
+    stop = "'",
+    keywords = {
+      { "\\'", "\\\\" },
+    },
+    col = scheme.string,
+  },
+  { -- comment
+    start = "/*";
+    stop = '*/';
+    col = scheme.comment,
+  },
+  { -- comment
+    start = "//";
+    stop = '\n';
+    col = scheme.comment,
+  },
+}
+
+return col
diff --git a/data/lib/red/syntax/lua.lua b/data/lib/red/syntax/lua.lua
index e94f969..a6e1efa 100644
--- a/data/lib/red/syntax/lua.lua
+++ b/data/lib/red/syntax/lua.lua
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ local function number(ctx, txt, i)
 end
 
 local col = {
-  col = 0,
+  col = scheme.default,
   keywords = {
     { "(", ")", "{", "}", "[", "]", ".", ",", ";", ":",
       "..", "...", "==", "~=", "<=", "=>", ">", "<", "+", "-",
diff --git a/data/lib/red/syntax/markdown.lua b/data/lib/red/syntax/markdown.lua
index c509ab2..877151c 100644
--- a/data/lib/red/syntax/markdown.lua
+++ b/data/lib/red/syntax/markdown.lua
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ local function numbersect(ctx, txt, pos, epos)
 end
 
 local col = {
-  col = 0,
+  col = scheme.default,
   keywords = {
     { '\\*', '\\#', '\\-', '\\\\' },
   },
diff --git a/data/lib/red/syntax/python.lua b/data/lib/red/syntax/python.lua
index 6c51a97..774da2f 100644
--- a/data/lib/red/syntax/python.lua
+++ b/data/lib/red/syntax/python.lua
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ local function number(ctx, txt, i)
 end
 
 local col = {
-  col = 0,
+  col = scheme.default,
   keywords = {
     { ":", ".", ">", "<", "+", "-", "*", "/", "%", "=",
       "!=", "==", "{", "}", "(", ")", "[", "]", ",", ";",