Re: -S option

On 2020-01-11, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> I'm fighting the following strange behaviour:
> >From an xterm, in Linux:
> $ vim -S bar.vim foo.txt
>
> bar.vim is a very basic syntax file. What happens is that foo.txt gets
> edited but the syntax highlighting is missing.
> I can activate it via
> :so bar.vim
> but it should not be necessary. What's wrong?
>
> Note that
> $ gvim -S bar.vim foo.txt
> edits the file with syn. hi. active.

It works for me.

I created the following files,

----------------------------- bar.vim ------------------------------
syn keyword Statement cow
----------------------------- foo.txt ------------------------------
The cow stood in the pasture.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

and ran vim as follows:

$ vim -N -u NONE --cmd 'syntax on' -S bar.vim foo.txt

The word "cow" was highlighted in yellow, as expected.

The vim I used is a normal version, reasonably up to date.

$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Dec 17 2019 13:33:01)
Included patches: 1-18
Compiled by gary@aurora
Normal version with GTK2 GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
...

Regards,
Gary

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