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Technical (Development, Security, etc.) => Unix / Linux Discussion => Topic started by: rabbit on September 09, 2006, 05:21:43 PM

Title: (G)VIm and Syntax Highlighting
Post by: rabbit on September 09, 2006, 05:21:43 PM
I try to turn on syntax highlighting in GVIm, but all I get is "No Syntax items defined for this buffer", despite
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/dcd.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/ampl.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/dcl.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/xkb.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/latte.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/xhtml.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/manual.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/master.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/def.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/gnuplot.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/tcsh.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/whitespace.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/lite.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/lisp.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/asm68k.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/cpp.vim
etc...

It's really bugging me -.-
Title: Re: (G)VIm and Syntax Highlighting
Post by: Sidoh on September 09, 2006, 05:59:35 PM
Does syntax highlighting work in vim?  I'd imagine not, but just verifying...
Title: Re: (G)VIm and Syntax Highlighting
Post by: rabbit on September 09, 2006, 06:22:59 PM
Nope.
Title: Re: (G)VIm and Syntax Highlighting
Post by: Sidoh on September 09, 2006, 06:40:53 PM
sidoh@muaddib:~$ whereis vim
vim: /usr/bin/vim /usr/share/vim /usr/man/man1/vim.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz

Do you get similar results?
Title: Re: (G)VIm and Syntax Highlighting
Post by: nslay on September 09, 2006, 07:41:22 PM
Escape from input mode (use esc)
and type:
:syn on

EDIT: For learning vim, try 'vimtutor'

EDIT 2: Ah n/m :(
Title: Re: (G)VIm and Syntax Highlighting
Post by: rabbit on September 09, 2006, 08:18:21 PM
Quote from: nslay on September 09, 2006, 07:41:22 PM
Escape from input mode (use esc)
and type:
:syn on
That's what I'm doing!

Quote from: Sidoh on September 09, 2006, 06:40:53 PM
sidoh@muaddib:~$ whereis vim
vim: /usr/bin/vim /usr/share/vim /usr/man/man1/vim.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz

Do you get similar results?
[spencer@asimov ~]$ whereis vim
vim: /usr/bin/vim /usr/share/vim /usr/man/man1/vim.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz


[edit]
It's working now?  I didn't do anything.  Whatever.
Title: Re: (G)VIm and Syntax Highlighting
Post by: Sidoh on September 09, 2006, 10:35:26 PM
Hahah, strange.  Did you reboot or anything like that?
Title: Re: (G)VIm and Syntax Highlighting
Post by: rabbit on September 09, 2006, 10:41:03 PM
Nope!  I just left to play some CS, came back about an hour later, and it was highlighting :\
Title: Re: (G)VIm and Syntax Highlighting
Post by: Sidoh on September 09, 2006, 10:45:52 PM
Quote from: rabbit on September 09, 2006, 10:41:03 PM
Nope!  I just left to play some CS, came back about an hour later, and it was highlighting :\

You reminded it "whereitis."