VIM syntax highlighting broken?

[Joel Edwards]

The version I have (running breezy) doesn't have syntax enabled by default.
I had to use the "syntax enable" command every time I start up vim.
However, if the command "syntax on" is added to the user's .vimrc file, it
will enable it automatically when it starts. Seems like a more failsafe
method than a symlink. To test if the system supports color:

if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
 syntax on
 set hlsearch
endif

Could simply include the .vimrc file in each user's profile by default, that
way people don't need to go searching around, or messing with symlinks.


On 3/4/06, Rocco Stanzione <grasshopper at linuxkungfu.org> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 04 March 2006 07:08, Michael Bienia wrote:
> > Create a symlink vim63 -> vim64 in /usr/share/vim. I've done it some
> > time ago and nearly forgot about this bug.
> > IIRC this is necessary because vim-runtime is installed in
> > /usr/share/vim/vim64 and vim looks for files in /usr/share/vim/vim63
> > because vim --version thinks it's 6.3 (dpkg tells it's 6.4).
>
> I ran across thus too, but I didn't realize it was a bug or I'd have filed
> a
> bug report.  I "set runtimepath" manually in my .vimrc, which I've kept
> around at least since 6.3, and /usr/share/vim64 wasn't in there.  I added
> it
> and all was well.  Off to launchpad now to see if there's a bug report.
>
> Rocco
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