On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:40:58 -0500 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> tag 402691 unreproducible moreinfo > thanks > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:21:00PM -0500, Brad Barnett wrote: > > For some reason, syntax highlighting is now on by default with vim. > > That's not the case as evidenced by the lack of syntax highlighting when > starting Vim as "vim -u /etc/vim/vimrc -N". Hmm. When I start vim like this, I still get syntax highlighting. I do have syntax off in the vimrc file listed above. > > > Fair enough, perhaps enough people prefer it... > > > > However, I am unable to turn off syntax highlighting at all. Editing > > /etc/vim/vimrc, and uncommenting: > > > > "syntax on > > > > and changing it to: > > > > syntax off > > > > does not work. Further, ":syntax off" inside of vim does not work > > either. > > It works fine for me. Can you try reproducing this via the above > suggested command line? If that works as expected, the problem is > likely in your ~/.vimrc or ~/.vim/. I have no ~/.vimrc or ~/.vim. I am positive I'm using vim.full, though... # ls -l /etc/vim/vimrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2318 Dec 11 23:09 /etc/vim/vimrc # ls -l /usr/bin/vim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 10 22:21 /usr/bin/vim -> /etc/alternatives/vim # ls -l /etc/alternatives/vim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Dec 11 00:28 /etc/alternatives/vim -> /usr/bin/vim.full > > James > -- > GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
