Bug#402691: vim.full refuses to turn syntax highlighting off

[James Vega]

tag 402691 unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:21:00PM -0500, Brad Barnett wrote:
> For some reason, syntax highlighting is now on by default with vim. 

That's not the case as evidenced by the lack of syntax highlighting when
starting Vim as "vim -u /etc/vim/vimrc -N".

> Fair enough, perhaps enough people prefer it...
> 
> However, I am unable to turn off syntax highlighting at all.  Editing
> /etc/vim/vimrc, and uncommenting:
> 
> "syntax on
> 
> and changing it to:
> 
> syntax off
> 
> does not work.  Further, ":syntax off" inside of vim does not work either.  

It works fine for me.  Can you try reproducing this via the above
suggested command line?  If that works as expected, the problem is
likely in your ~/.vimrc or ~/.vim/.

James
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GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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