Bug#503476: [vim] "Syntax on" don't work

[James Vega]

tag 503476 moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:29:35AM -0200, ASD Consultoria wrote:
> Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimrc:
> line   20:
> E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: syntax on
> Press ENTER or type command to continue

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:25:18AM -0200, ASD Consultoria wrote:
> > /usr/bin/md5sum /etc/vim/vimrc*
> 
> 17f057776f704dedeadd2a5ce0d7dd62  /etc/vim/vimrc
> 14b4c597d9914fef7f962f1a6111bd4e  /etc/vim/vimrc.dpkg-old
> 3b4112567ad92c78ccc16c670df381e9  /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny

The above two quotes are conflicting.  /usr/share/vim/vimrc is a symlink
to /etc/vim/vimrc.  The md5sum of /etc/vim/vimrc shows that it is the
default one shipped in the vim-common package which does not actually
have a "syntax on" command in it.

> > /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display vim
> 
> vim - estado é auto
>  ligação atualmente aponta para /usr/bin/vim.gnome
> /usr/bin/vim.tiny - prioridade 10
> /usr/bin/vim.gnome - prioridade 60
> 'Melhor' versão atual é /usr/bin/vim.gnome.

As well, your /usr/bin/vim currently resolves to /usr/bin/vim.gnome
which does have syntax support compiled in.

This sounds like /usr/share/vim/vimrc has been changed to an actual
file, replacing the symlink, on your computer, it enables syntax
highlighting, and you happened to invoke /usr/bin/vim.tiny specifically
(or via a bad shell alias) instead of just running vim.

If that's not the case, then I'll need a reproducible set of steps to
test what's wrong.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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