Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
Larry Alkoff wrote:
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?
These commands are fine. So, bring up your new vim and type:
:version
What does that show?
Regards,
Chip Campbell
":syntax on" will fail in versions compiled without syntax highlighting
support; ":set mouse" will fail on versions compiled without mouse support.
Maybe he's using a "tiny" version? They still ought to show in
:help :syntax-on
:help 'mouse'
If they don't, then I guess Larry's distribution of Vim 7 has been "modified"
to cripple the help, in which case he really ought to avail himself of some
distribution compiled from true-blue official sources.
Even on my laptop (when I used it) I used a "Big" version of gvim (which had
everything except profiling).
Larry: since according to your headers you're on a Unix-like system, you might
want to compile your own Vim (the current version is 7.0.195), see my
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm
If your laptop uses Windows, you can also avail yourself of Steve Hall's Vim
for Windows
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866&package_id=39721
(Steve Hall is also the main leader of the "Cream for Vim" project but this
page is for Windows Vim without Cream).
Best regards,
Tony.
--
Jone's Law:
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone
to blame it on.
