Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:00:15AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> If you want vim to be really useful you need the vim-rt package as well.
> I suspect that tips the balance.

okay, so i
	# apt-get install vim vim-rt
and vi still points to elvis, so i
	# update-alternatives --install `which vi` vi /usr/bin/vim 150
to use vim as default vi, and immediately
run into syntax difficulties in my ~/.exrc which i fix...

i get no syntax hilighting at all (the 'file ends here, so
we'll show a tilde from here own down' is blue but that's all
that's colored).

i see there are kahuna mongo syntax files in what appears to
be a settings dir at /usr/share/vim/vim56/syntax/* which would
apparently be selected by /usr/share/vim/vim56/filetype.vim
if it were called from the appropriate place at the appropriate
time...

how is that supposed to be set up? did i overlook something?
(<snooty>elvis worked all spiffy right out of the box</snooty>...)

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