Tony,
I have already corrected the problem (thanks to Paul Bolle who's on
this list).
The *only* thing I needed to do was add:
filetype plugin on
to my .vimrc file.
No copying files, creating directories, sourcing plugins, just this line.
I can't believe this isn't an FAQ. It's either my disto default settings
or there's not too many people using this functionality.
Thanks a lot for your complete explanation below. It's a good reference
for future configuration changes.
Best,
Doug
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:44:00PM +0100, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
> Doug Carter wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I changed distros and now I can't get matchit to work on html files.
> >I've spent hours on the net and in help files and have had no success.
> >
> >Can someone send me some example .vimrc settings to get this working?
> >
> >I'm currently running vim 6.3 on CentOS.
> >
> >TIA,
> >
> >Doug
> >
> >
>
> "Normally" the following are enough (replace .vim by vimfiles and possibly
> .vimrc by _vimrc on non-Unix-like platforms)
>
> Notes:
> 1. I recommend upgrading to version 7.0 (current patchlevel is 7.0.162). In
> that case the $VIMRUNTIME directory will of course be $VIM/vim70 instead of
> $VIM/vim63. You might also get a newer version of matchit in the process:
> current version is (AFAIK) version 1.11 dated May 15 10:00 PM 2006 EDT.
> 2. If $VIM is undefined in your shell (which is the normal case) replace it
> by whatever it would be inside Vim (typically something like
> /usr/local/share/vim on Unix, "C:\Program Files\vim" on Windows, etc.)
>
> -----> ~/.vim/plugin/matchit.vim (full)
> runtime macros/matchit.vim
> <-----
>
> -----> do this in the shell (once). I assume a Unix(-like) shell
> -----> and Unix (or GNU) utilities.
> mkdir -p ~/.vim/doc
> cp -vf $VIM/vim63/macros/matchit.txt ~/.vim/doc
> vim -u NONE -i NONE -N "+helptags ~/.vim/doc | q"
> <-----
>
> -----> .vimrc (partim)
> set nocompatible
> " comment out this 'if' block and its content
> " to get menus & messages in your 'locale' language
> if has("unix")
> language messages C
> else
> language messages en
> endif
> runtime vimrc_example.vim
> " the above sets (among others)
> " filetype plugin indent on
> " syntax on
> " -------------------------------
> " user customizations come here
>
> <-----
>
> If matchit still doesn't work after the above have been done, describe your
> problem *in detail* with (if possible) precise steps to reproduce the
> problem, what happened, and what should have happened, and send it to the
> vim-dev list and/or to Benji Fischer (see email address near the top of
> $VIMRUNTIME/macros/matchit.vim).
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
