On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:56:16PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:00:15AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > If you want vim to be really useful you need the vim-rt package as well. > > I suspect that tips the balance. > > okay, so i > # apt-get install vim vim-rt > and vi still points to elvis, so i > # update-alternatives --install `which vi` vi /usr/bin/vim 150 > to use vim as default vi, and immediately > run into syntax difficulties in my ~/.exrc which i fix...
Try: o moving that ~/.exrc to something else o makings a symbolic link to /usr/share/vim/vimrc o creating a ~/.vimrc file (use /etc/vimrc as starting point) > i get no syntax hilighting at all (the 'file ends here, so > we'll show a tilde from here own down' is blue but that's all > that's colored). > > i see there are kahuna mongo syntax files in what appears to > be a settings dir at /usr/share/vim/vim56/syntax/* which would > apparently be selected by /usr/share/vim/vim56/filetype.vim > if it were called from the appropriate place at the appropriate > time... > > how is that supposed to be set up? did i overlook something? > (<snooty>elvis worked all spiffy right out of the box</snooty>...) Vim apparently doesn't like your .exrc (or it's preventing it from using the rest of the vim runtime files). -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found
