From redhat-list  Fri Sep 19 19:11:23 2003
From: christopher j bottaro <cjb () cs ! utexas ! edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:11:23 +0000
To: redhat-list
Subject: Re: vim-6.1 syntax highlighting
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ahh thanks, it worked.  i feel like such a tool.  i tried :help syntax but 
seemed to skip over the obvious.  i thought it was a problem of missing the 
files to describe syntax highlighting.

thanks again,
-- christopher

On Friday 19 September 2003 12:22 pm, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:49:53 -0500
>
> christopher j bottaro <cjb@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > the debian systems at my school have vim-6.1 but don't do syntax
> > highlighting.
> > how do i get syntax highlighting like on my redhat-9 system at home?
>
> Hi Christopher,
>
> If the syntax highlighting files are installed but just not being used,
>
> it might be as simple as typing:
> :syntax enable
>
> If they aren't installed or VIM has been compiled without syntax
> highlighting support you'll have to do some reinstallation work.
>
> The syntax files which describe what to highlight for each file type
> are in $VIMRUNTIME/syntax which on redhat 9 is:
>
> /usr/share/vim/$VERSION/syntax
>
> The online help for vim is really quite good.  When using vim
>
> type:
> :help syntax
>
> and you'll get oodles of info.
>
> Good Luck,
> Sean


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