[xubuntu-users] vim syntax on

[Adam Miller]

Chris,

Try ":syn on" .... that should work.

-Adam

On 4/3/07, Ralf Meyer <ranfyy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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