On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:58:21PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > When I try to turn on syntax highlighing in vim (from RH 6.2), using > what the manual says (:syntax on); it gives me an error "Sorry, this > command is not implemented". > > was it not compiled with syntax highlighting capability or > something? Possibly. Although, I think you might have "compatibility" set to on. This forces compatibility with standard vi functionality. "set nocompat" should turn this off and allow you to do syntax hilighting. The other thing you should check for is whether or not you're really running vim or not. ;-) Debian uses a symlink-spagetti jungle to specify default editors, such as 'vi', which can be served by elvis, tiny-vi, vim, nvt, etc... Follow all symlinks to their source binary or simply run the --version or appropriate command line option to find out what you're running. ;-) -- Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://wookimus.net/chewie -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 233 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20000919/d4286dd2/attachment.pgp -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org