Missing configuration commands in vim 7?

[Larry Alkoff]

I have a desktop and newly configured laptop with different versions of vim.
The desktop has vim 6.4.6 which contains the lines in ~/.vimrc
set mouse=a
syntax on
They show in :help


The laptop has vim 7.0.35 and gives an error on the above two vimrc 
commands.  Also they don't show in :help.

What has happened in vim 7?  Are there replacements for syntax on and 
set mouse?

Larry

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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
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