Chris, Try ":syn on" .... that should work. -Adam <div>On 4/3/07, Ralf Meyer <<a href="mailto:ranfyy@gmail.com">ranfyy@gmail.com</a> > wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Am Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:28:12 +1000 schrieb "Chris Henderson" < <a href="mailto:henders254@gmail.com">henders254@gmail.com</a>>: > 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. -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- -=:max:=-