* Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> [2011-09-22 10:13+0200] > On Thu, September 22, 2011 8:05 am, Lennart Andersen wrote: > > Could some tell me how I get syntax highlight on log files in the /var/log > > dir? Such as > > message, syslog, so on files with no extension. > > It should work out of the box. A simple :syntax on should work. > Vim's runtime files contain detection of logfiles below */log/ > which should work for most of those files below /var/log/ without > problems. But I believe there have been some changes on that matter > to the runtime files within the last half year, so you might need > to update your runtime files. > > regards, > Christian > > -- > 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
I know, but it is not and I do get every other file in color, but not files in the "/var/log" directory. It is starting to piss me off! :-) -- Lennart Andersen St Thomas, Ontario http://www.lennartandersen.com lennartka at rogers dot com gdane0871 at gmail dot com ---------------------------- - Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- 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
