[xubuntu-users] vim syntax on

[Ralf Meyer]

Am Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:28:12 +1000
schrieb "Chris Henderson" <henders254 at gmail.com>:

> I am using vim 7.0.35 on Xubuntu 6.10 with kernel 2.6.17-11-generic.
> 
> I found that "syntax on" command doesn't work on vim. I tried it from
> both inside .vimrc as "set syntax on" and "syntax on" and also from
> inside vim as ":syntax on" and ":set syntax on". It says: "Sorry, the
> command is not available in this version"
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.

By default only "vim-tiny" is installed.

What is the output of:
	dpkg -l 'vim*'

I'm not absolutely sure but I think "vim-common" is all you need to
install.