OT: Your .vimrc...

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008, John Esak wrote:
>Hi bill,
>
>Well, all the stuff in your .vimrc works great... except the last line, the
>one which I've been trying to make work... here's what I get when I vi some
>file...
>
>Error detected while processing /root/.vimrc:
>line   21:
>E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: syntax off
>Press ENTER or type command to continue

What happens if you try this from the ex command line, ``:syntax off''?

It works on every version of vim I've seen including the minimal /bin/vi
from the CentOS vim-minimal package.  This package is designed for use when
only the root partition is available (a situation I have never seen).

It sounds to me as though Ubuntu has managed to break vim.

Bill
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