By chance, are you executing the command as vi instead of vim? Red Hat 6.1
made vi and vim two distinct binaries, whereas before, there was a soft
link for vi that pointed to vim (I think). The vi binary is now a very
stripped-down version of vim, presumably intended for low disk space
environments and/or installation rescue attempts. RH 6.1 and up now only
install the vim-common and vim-minimal RPMs by default. So make sure you also
install the vim-enhanced (and, if you do most of your editing in an X Window
session, the vim-X11) RPMs, then add
alias vi=vim
to your .bashrc file.
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 02:26:07AM -0400, Dave Brooks wrote:
> I have an odd question about vim...
>
> Since I installed RedHat 6.1 on my machine, it seems that the
> syntax highlighting option seems to have been disabled. Just
> today I installed RH 6.2, and it seems to still be unavailable.
>
> On my work machine (which is also an RH 6.2 box), the syntaxing
> works fine, and without a problem. These boxes have the exact
> same vim RPMs installed.
>
> When I do a ':syntax on' from vim at home, I get a "Sorry, this
> command is not implemented" message, yet all the syntax files
> are in /usr/share/vim/vim56/syntax/ on both boxes.
>
> Any ideas? This is really bugging me. :)
>
> -Dave
>
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