Well, just as you said, the manual method does not work since there is no .vim file in my home directory? Could you share your successful installation experience?
On Friday, January 31, 2014 1:25:37 PM UTC+8, Thomas Moore wrote: > > I got it working now :) This is probably quite obvious to most users, but > I didn't know a new VIM user needs to make a .vim file in ~/.vim, and if > this doesn't exist the manual install won't work. I hope this helps someone. > > > On Sunday, 15 December 2013 17:18:21 UTC+10, Thomas Moore wrote: >> >> I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04, and from there installed Julia through >> githib. Now, when I open a .jl file in Vim, it seems there's some sort of >> syntax highlighting which works, but it's inconsistent (words like >> "function", "print" and "if" are coloured, but others like "for" and >> "while" are not.) >> >> Does anyone have any idea what's wrong here? Alternatively, I'm not >> really attached to any editor yet in Ubuntu, and so if there's an easier >> way to set up another editor with syntax highlighting, feel free to >> recommend it. >> >> Thanks >> >
