VIM syntax highlighting broken?

Sami Haahtinen ressu at ressukka.net
Tue Mar 7 20:57:16 GMT 2006


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Michael Bienia wrote:
> I've done some more testing and it seems my vim installation is a little
> bit broken:
> /usr/bin/vim.gnome is 6.4
> /usr/bin/vim.basic is 6.4
> /usr/bin/vim is 6.3
> 
> This would explain why I also need a symlink to get syntax highlighting
> (I've already syntax on in my .vimrc). I will investigate why my vim
> binary is still 6.3 instead of 6.4.
> As vim is working normally I didn't notice it till now.

This is a bug in the packaging.. purging all instances of vim (vim-gnome
was the culprit, afair) and reinstalling fixes this.

I'll see if i can dig up some better info on this..

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