Syntax highlighting not working in vim73

Wed Nov 10 02:57:00 GMT 2010

On 11/9/2010 7:14 PM, Harrington, John wrote:
> Thank you very much, Larry. This worked, though perhaps not for the reason
> you expected. Excuse the long description that follows, but the fix raised
> some issues that I thought I should report.

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> 7.3.3 is the one I thought I installed. I don't recall installing a separate
> utility "vim 7.1", but I guess I must have. In any case, I'm very satisfied
> that "vi" is now showing syntax. It puzzles me a bit that the specific
> command "vim" still does not work with syntax, but since I never type "vim"
> (I could easily reverse the above alias, I suppose), I am not concerned.

This is indeed wrong. All your vim-related executables should be symbolic
links to more links under '/etc/alternatives'. See
"/etc/postinstall/vim.sh.*" for details of what should be linked where.
Your '/usr/bin/vim' is apparently the actual executable from a previous
version (7.1). If nothing else, I'd recommend you remove '/usr/bin/vim.exe'
to avoid future confusion/problems.
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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