ahh thanks, it worked. i feel like such a tool. i tried :help syntax but seemed to skip over the obvious. i thought it was a problem of missing the files to describe syntax highlighting.
thanks again, -- christopher On Friday 19 September 2003 12:22 pm, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:49:53 -0500 > > christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the debian systems at my school have vim-6.1 but don't do syntax > > highlighting. > > how do i get syntax highlighting like on my redhat-9 system at home? > > Hi Christopher, > > If the syntax highlighting files are installed but just not being used, > > it might be as simple as typing: > :syntax enable > > If they aren't installed or VIM has been compiled without syntax > highlighting support you'll have to do some reinstallation work. > > The syntax files which describe what to highlight for each file type > are in $VIMRUNTIME/syntax which on redhat 9 is: > > /usr/share/vim/$VERSION/syntax > > The online help for vim is really quite good. When using vim > > type: > :help syntax > > and you'll get oodles of info. > > Good Luck, > Sean -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
