The eternal problem.... On just *some* of my several Linux systems colour syntax higlighting isn't working. It always used to work but I really can't see what I might have changed on *some* systems to break it.
The systems and versions and 'working or not' are:- backup xubuntu 22.10 vile 9.8w colour OK bison Android 11 vile 9.8w colour OK caracal Debian 10 vile 9.8 no colour syntax cheddar Debian 10 vile 9.8t colour OK esprimo xubuntu 22.04 vile 9.8u no colour syntax isbd Ubuntu 20.04 vile 9.8t colour OK odin Debian 9 vile 9.8s colour OK pimedia Debian 11 vile 9.8u colour OK t470 xubuntu 22.10 vile 9.8w colour OK tsohost very old vile 9.8 no colour syntax Since esprimo is my main desktop system it's a bit annoying that syntax colouring isn't working there. On all systems 'show-colors' in vile works fine, so they're all *capable* of colour. The two systems showing just vile 9.8 are ones where I have built vile myself, so they have pretty recent code. All systems have the same .vilerc and it runs with no errors. So they all execute:- source filters.rc setv $autocolor-hook HighlightFilter setv $read-hook HighlightFilter set autocolor=500 set bcolor=default I'm stumped! Can anyone point me at some way to diagnose what's wrong? Could it (possibly) be something to do with built-in or external filters? If so, how do I tell whether vile was built with 'built-in' or not? -- Chris Green