From: Nate Bargmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm not sure as I've seen the reference to the $VIMRUNTIME > env variable > in the vim docs. Since it seems vim is "hardwired" to look in > /usr/share/vim, perhaps /usr/share/vim should be a sim-link to a real > directory of /usr/share/vim56 or whatever the prefered > installed version.
Vim should be set up with two relevant directories - the first is $VIM, which falls back to /usr/share/vim if not defined (at least on the version of vim which comes with Potato - it's a compile-time option if you build vim yourself). The second is $VIMRUNTIME, which defaults to $VIM/vimNN where NN is Vim's version number (56 for 5.6). So you should have the system vimrc in /usr/share/vim/vimrc, and the runtime files in /usr/share/vim/vim56/, and then everything should work with NO environment variables needed. This is what you get if you do apt-get install vim vim-rt. You need vim-rt, as that contains the runtime stuff (the docs, syntax files, etc). I'm forever installing vim but forgetting vim-rt - was that the original poster's problem? You shouldn't need to set environment variables or move files. If you do, there's a big bug in the vim packages (and I know there isn't in the versions I'm using - 5.6.070-1) Hope this helps, Paul.
