Re: problems with syntax highlighting in vim

[Rick Reynolds <rick@rickandviv.net>]

Glenn Becker wrote:

> Apologies if this has been posted already.
>
> I am trying to use vim to edit some html files. Never had a problem 
> setting the syntax before, but on my Debian install (testing), I get 
> this when I am inside a simple index.html file and type the ex command:
>
> :syntax on
>
> Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim64/syntax/syntax.vim:
> line 42:
> E216: No such group or event: filetypedetect BufRead
> Hit ENTER or type command to continue
>
> ... anyone else ever seen this? I checked out the file it was trying 
> to process and yep, that directive is on line 42 ...
>
> I'm guessing it might be some vim support package I'm missing but if 
> so I don't know why it wasn't downloaded as a dependency ...


I'm pretty sure I hit that a few months back.  As I remember it turned 
out that I needed to allow the packaging system to install the new copy 
of <whatever file> that the package maintainer had shipped with vim.  
Apparently I had told it to keep my previously installed version when 
apt-get asked me what to do.  Once I moved the dpkg-dist copy into place 
everything worked again.

Sorry, I forget exactly which file fixed it.  You could remove vim and 
add it again, perhaps?

Thanks,
Rick Reynolds
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