Gary Johnson wrote:
> I just encountered this error message while trying to debug a > problem with extracting vimballs. It's not related to > vimballs--that's just how I happened to find it. I executed > > vim -V9verbose.out DrawIt.vba.gz > > and discovered this message among the others in the verbose.out log > file: > > ... > continuing in /home/garyjohn/share/vim/vim71/syntax/manual.vim > Error detected while processing > /home/garyjohn/share/vim/vim71/syntax/manual.vim: > line 20: > E216: No such group or event: syntaxset FileType > finished sourcing /home/garyjohn/share/vim/vim71/syntax/manual.vim > ... > > Here is that section of manual.vim, with line numbers enabled: > > 19 " Remove the connection between FileType and Syntax autocommands. > 20 silent! au! syntaxset FileType > > Is this a bug or is this error expected under some conditions and > hence the "silent!" command? If the latter, it would be nice if a > comment to that effect could be added to syntax/manual.vim so that > folks could know to ignore the message when it appears in their > debug logs. > > I see this running vim 7.1.79 on Cygwin and 7.1.77 on SunOS 5.8. I would think this is normal: When doing :syntax manual twice there are no syntaxset autocommands. That's why there is a ":silent!" before the command. However, when I try to reproduce it by executing the command directly I don't get this error. So somewhere the "syntaxset" augroup must have been deleted. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 23. You can't call your mother...she doesn't have a modem. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
