[maemo-users] Vim - syntax highlighting

[From: Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail]

> Are you sure you're not using the "vi" shortcut from busybox?

I type vim, or some times the App-Shortcut/link/whatever that is was placed
in my applications panel with the Vim logo, after installing vim from the
appmanager.


> Are you trying to run /usr/bin/vim directly? Try typing just "vi" (no
> arguments), it should show the vim initial screen with "VIM - Vi IMproved"
> on the top.


In this particular post (or because of the hour). it is not clear to me what
do you mean. It appears to be a contradiction.

Anyways, the only difference I notice between  Terminal >> type[vi]
and      Terminal >> type[*vim*] is that when I type (i) to insert the word
INSERT is placed at the bottom of the screen between hyphens, and characters
are purple, and the screen (because I changed it for my terminal output) is
black.

*~                                                         *
*~                                                         *
*~                                                         *
*~   -- INSERT --                                          *

Instead of

*~                                                         *
*~**                                                         *
*~**                                                         *
*I No file 1/1 100%**                                        *

*In None of them appears the splash screen, only the INSERT or EDIT words
for the modes. Instead of the I and nothing "" for the edit mode in regular
vi.*

I really don't know how what else to say, except please be patient.

I Installed vim from the app-manager, that places an icon in applications,
whether I hit that Icon or type the word [*vim*] in the Terminal
application, the first (purple letters) screen appears. I don't ever type
vi. And In the purple screen.

Should I uninstall it and re-install it by apt, should I download it from
the site vim.org, compile it?

Is there a configuration or filesys option that is required and I might not
have?

For instance I learn earlier that I couldn't execute Go (language) compiled
sources inside MyDocs/whateverDirectory, instead because of vfat I had to
copy the files (hellowworld sample) to the usr/bin and chmod from there to
run it. then deleted to keep my /usr/bin clean.

May be I am missing something. Again to have an overview:

PR.1.2
Vim Editor installed from Maemo App-Manager (I have here the Extas-Devel
catalog but I thing Vim was there before I added this catalog so no problem)
have ~/.vimrc with [syntax on, set background=dark]  (*note: separated by
comma only here, not in real file*)
have ~/.vim/syntax/ directory
have ~/.vim/syntax/go.vim (syntax for Go language)
have ~/.vim/colors/ directory (testing midnight2 theme)
have ~/.vim/colors/midnight2.vim

Should I have any Environment Variables that indicate the location to my
~./vimrc to vim?

f(t)





2010/6/22 Cláudio Sampaio <patola at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail <
> francisco.diaztrepat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Definitely there is something wrong with my installation.
>>
>> even if I set background=dark from the command
>>
>> :set background=dark
>> :set bg=dark
>> :set bg "dark"
>>
>> it doesn't do anything.
>>
>> What can I do?
>>
>
> Are you sure you're not using the "vi" shortcut from busybox? Are you
> trying to run /usr/bin/vim directly? Try typing just "vi" (no arguments), it
> should show the vim initial screen with "VIM - Vi IMproved" on the top.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Cláudio "Patola" Sampaio
> IRC: ptl  - Yahoo: patolaaa
> Campinas, SP - Brazil.
>
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