Thanks for the advice, I get a copy of vim72 from another OSX machine (same minor version), and after placing it in /usr/share/vim, everything works as expected.
Thomas On Apr 9, 3:06 pm, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-04-09, Thomas Allen wrote: > > > On Apr 9, 12:17 pm, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What do these commands show? > > > > :set rtp? > > > runtimepath=~/.vim,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim,/usr/share/ > > vim/vimfiles/after,~/.vim/after > > > > :version > > > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Jun 17 2009 19:45:57) > > You wrote earlier: > > > Vim is looking in /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim, but the file is > > located at /usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/syntax.vim. Is there an > > environment variable or vim setting that I can use to get Vim looking > > in the correct location? > > You are using Vim-7.2 but expecting it to find files in the > directories designated for Vim-7.0. Your Vim is looking for the > directory /usr/share/vim/vim72. Not finding that, it is falling > back to /usr/share/vim. > > The correct solution is to update your installation with the runtime > files for Vim-7.2. > > You could change $VIMRUNTIME or 'runtimepath' ('rtp') to make Vim > look in /usr/share/vim/vim70 for its runtime files, but you're > likely to run into problems since your Vim may depend on the more > recent versions of those files. > > Regards, > Gary -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
