On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:00:15AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > If you want vim to be really useful you need the vim-rt package as well. > > I suspect that tips the balance. > > okay, so i > # apt-get install vim vim-rt > and vi still points to elvis, so i > # update-alternatives --install `which vi` vi /usr/bin/vim 150 > to use vim as default vi, and immediately > run into syntax difficulties in my ~/.exrc which i fix... If VIM finds a .vimrc file in $HOME, it comes up in nocompatible mode. Otherwise, it comes up in VI compatible mode.
> i get no syntax hilighting at all (the 'file ends here, so > we'll show a tilde from here own down' is blue but that's all > that's colored). Try this: $ vim .vimrc Place 'syntax on' in your .vimrc. In command mode, enter ':syntax on' and start to experience syntax highlighting. While still open in VIM, enter ':help' in command mode. This is your VIM help resources. In command mode, enter ':help syntax' or ':help color'. Learn here more about all the different kinds of color highlighting. > i see there are kahuna mongo syntax files in what appears to > be a settings dir at /usr/share/vim/vim56/syntax/* which would > apparently be selected by /usr/share/vim/vim56/filetype.vim > if it were called from the appropriate place at the appropriate > time... > > how is that supposed to be set up? did i overlook something? See above. For the VIM user community, post on the 'comp.editors' newsgroup. Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]