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List:       vim
Subject:    Re: can't find syntax files
From:       Gary Johnson <garyjohn () spk ! agilent ! com>
Date:       2004-01-14 5:29:42
Message-ID: 20040114052942.GB11961 () davinci ! spk ! agilent ! com
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On 2004-01-13, christopher j bottaro <cjb@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> whenever vim starts up, it gives an error about not being able to find 
> "/opt/share/vim/vim62/syntax/syntax.vim".  how do get vim to look elsewhere 
> for the syntax file (without having to recompile)?

Set the $VIMRUNTIME environment variable to point to the location of
your run-time files.  You can put that setting in your ~/.profile.
It appears that you could also set $VIMRUNTIME in your ~/.vimrc, but
I'm not sure if that will set it in time.  Try it.  See

    :help $VIMRUNTIME

Gary

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Gary Johnson                 | Agilent Technologies
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