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Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 12:34:32 -0400
From: Li-Kai Liu <news AT likai DOT net>
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Subject: Re: VIM Colors
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:16:32PM -0700, Karl M wrote:
>
>>Hi All...
>>
>>I have not noticed anything about this in the list...
>>
>>After recent updates (I don't know exactly when) my VIM lost its syntax 
>>colors. (Win2k pro sp2 using standard command shell window for bash)
>>
>>Did I do something wrong (with all the directory rearrangements) or is it 
>>broken at this time?
>>
>
>It's not broken.  There's just no default vimrc file as in the 5.x
>release.  Add `syntax on' to your $HOME/.vimrc file.
>
also there is a bunch of other behavioral changes "without default vimrc 
file" ... including the weird escaping from insert mode and weird 
backspace behavior (it won't delete beyond the insert point). so i added 
the following lines in my $HOME/.vimrc to get back to work as quickly as 
possible.

---- starting my .vimrc ----
set nocompatible
set backspace=indent,eol,start

syntax on
colorscheme elflord
---- end of my .vimrc ----

this will get you something pretty close to what you had before ... you 
could theoretically steal some default vimrc from a linux distribution, 
/usr/share/vim/vim60/macros/vimrc, and put it into your own 
/usr/share/vim/vim60/macros/vimrc, which offers a fuller set of feature 
"defaults" than what i have here.

oh well, hope things work fine for you again.

liulk
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