VIM syntax highlighting broken?

[João Pinto]

Hello,
The VIM syntax highlighting is also disabled on dapper.
The "syntax enable" is commented on /etc/vim/vimrc .

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Joel Edwards wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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