On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:28:45 -0500 (EST) "Benjamin R. Haskell" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ubuntu 9.10's /usr/share/vim/vimrc contains: > > if has("syntax") > syntax on > endif > > Try commenting that out, for starters. Otherwise, I'll keep digging. > FC 9 and 10 don't appear to have a similar 'global vimrc'.
Yeah that's probably it. I'm not working in ubuntu right now but I had a look, and that file (a softlink to /etc/vim/vimrc) is there. I previously uninstalled the ubuntu vim -- the one I am using is in /usr/local -- which is why such a conflict did not occur to me. I presume that the uninstall did not remove those files, and that vim always checks a list of default directories inc. /usr/share/vim (is that a good idea?) Someone should send ubuntu a note about this since this is clearly a BAD POLICY. If anyone connected with vim, etc wants to do so, please reply, otherwise I'll go ahead. -- MK <[email protected]>
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