Re: Vim searches for system syntax.vim at wrong location

On 2010-04-09, Thomas Allen wrote:
> On Apr 9, 12:17 pm, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote:
> > What do these commands show?
> >
> >     :set rtp?
>
> runtimepath=~/.vim,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim,/usr/share/
> vim/vimfiles/after,~/.vim/after
>
> >     :version
>
> VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Jun 17 2009 19:45:57)

You wrote earlier:

> Vim is looking in /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim, but the file is
> located at /usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/syntax.vim. Is there an
> environment variable or vim setting that I can use to get Vim looking
> in the correct location?

You are using Vim-7.2 but expecting it to find files in the
directories designated for Vim-7.0. Your Vim is looking for the
directory /usr/share/vim/vim72. Not finding that, it is falling
back to /usr/share/vim.

The correct solution is to update your installation with the runtime
files for Vim-7.2.

You could change $VIMRUNTIME or 'runtimepath' ('rtp') to make Vim
look in /usr/share/vim/vim70 for its runtime files, but you're
likely to run into problems since your Vim may depend on the more
recent versions of those files.

Regards,
Gary

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