Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 161123
No syntax highlighting in VIM after FC4 upgrade
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:08 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: After an upgrade of FC3 to FC4 vim no longer highlights syntax. Same results on two different boxes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run vim with a file that should be syntax highlighted. 2. Look at the screen. Actual Results: No syntax highlighting. Expected Results: Files should be syntax highlighted. Additional info: syntax on syntax enabled and creating a .vimrc that should turn on syntax highlight has no effect. Both of the systems I've had this problem with worked fine before the upgrade.
I assume this is only happening for root and not for ordinary users with uids > 100 ? Make sure you're running vim and not vi. (/usr/bin/vim vs. /bin/vi). Due to many complaints the alias vi=vim isn't set anymore for uids < 100. if you'd like to have the old behaviour back, add a line alias vi=vim to your .bashrc