How to find LUA method for VIM Command

Question

I am in the process of converting my .vimrc to init.lua. Several of my lines end up containing vimscript inside a call to vim.cmd, such as

vim.cmd("highlight Normal guibg=none ctermbg=none")
vim.cmd("highlight EndOfBuffer guibg=none ctermbg=none")
vim.cmd("highlight cursorline cterm=none ctermbg=236")
vim.cmd("highlight cursorcolumn cterm=none ctermbg=236")

vim.cmd("syntax on")
vim.cmd("filetype on")

How can I find the corresponding lua functions to call for these features?

Answer 1

For highlight command, you can use function nvim_set_hl() instead:

vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, 'Normal', {fg = '#00ffff', bg = '#ff0000'})

There is not equivalent function for syntax on and filetype on in lua.