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Re: VIM Colors
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:34:32PM -0400, Li-Kai Liu wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >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,
You don't need Linux. You can just take the vimrc_example.vim file
from /usr/share/vim/vim60 as example.
Corinna
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