On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:13:37AM -0400, Jack Donohue wrote:
> Just started using vim 7 (I know, I'm a "late adopter"), and mostly I like
> it, but I've noticed a couple of quirks. One is that it seems to lose
> syntax context when switching windows. I will have a perl source file
> open, everything looks fine. Then I switch to another window (actual
> Window window with Alt-Tab), when I come back the entire thing is
> highlighted as literal text. I have a lot of literal text in this file,
> and I have seen this happen with old Vim 6.3, but it seems to be happening
> more often with Vim 7.
This is not normal behavior: for me, nothing much changes when I
switch away from and back to my gvim window. A few ideas:
Does CTRL-L fix the display?
Do you have any FocusGained or FocusLost autocommands?
:au FocusGained
:au FocusLost
Do you have the same problems if you start vim without your usual vimrc
file?
$ gvim --noplugin -u $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim -U \
$VIMRUNTIME/gvimrc_example
> Another is that the syntax highlighting doesn't seem to happen
> automatically. When I do :filetype it comes back as conf. I have to put a
> syntax on line in the appropriate ftplugin file for it to happen. Is this
> something new?
Maybe you mean
:set filetype?
and not :filetype ? Do you have something like
:filetype plugin on
and
:syntax on
in your vimrc file? What does
:verbose set filetype?
tell you? How about the last few lines of
:scriptnames
after loading the file?
HTH --Benji Fisher
