On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 10:24:43AM -0700, hajhouse wrote: > I have a new installation of Ubuntu Edgy whose provided Vim package has > some very annoying problems that make it nearly unusable. I have copied > over my old /etc/vim/ and ~/.vimrc unchanged. > > - folds are on with pieces of most kinds of files (conffiles, mail) > being hidden by default. I need to manually set foldmethod=marker or > foldlevel=10 to unhide everything. Adding either of those commands to > my vimrc had no apparent effect. > > - syntax highlighting fails silently > > - weird abbreviation expansions occur when I typ certain texts > > Has anyone else experienced anything like this? What is really weird is > that vim works fine on another Ubuntu Edgy system, installed about a > month ago.
I use vim on literally dozens of *buntu machines and haven't experienced anything like this. In general though, I don't touch the system wide stuff and instead append a local path to $VIMRUNTIME. A shotgun approach for things to try: Debug mode: vim -D from within vim, show all non-default options: :set :help set Might also provide some clues. Is there anything in either the system-wide or your personal vim "after" directories? How does vim behave without your personal /etc/vim and ~/.vim* ? I do understand your pain, as I've been struggling recently with some odd termcap behaviour on an old RHEL install. A Vim that doesn't behave as one expects it to is a frustrating tool. -t _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
