[arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Tue May 12 01:25:43 EDT 2009


Dan McGee wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Tobias Kieslich <tobias at justdreams.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Finally, the new vi* packages are up. There will be a little migration
>>> pain. For optimal results, I recommend to "sudo rm /usr/bin/{view/rview}"
>>> before you run "sudo pacman -Syu"
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> dmcgee at galway ~
>> $ vim .vimrc
>> Error detected while processing /home/dmcgee/.vimrc:
>> line   64:
>> E185: Cannot find color scheme inkpot
>> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>>
>> dmcgee at galway ~
>> $ locate inkpot
>> /usr/share/vim/colors/inkpot.vim
>>
>> For reference, here is some of my .vimrc:
>>
>> " GUI/NONGUI SETTINGS "
>> if has("gui_running")
>>        if has("gui_gtk2")
>>                set guifont=DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono\ 12
>>        endif
>>        colorscheme desert
>>        set columns=80 lines=40
>> else
>>        colorscheme inkpot
>> endif
>>
>>
>> And a quick guess, it looks like the new vim package puts its colors here:
>> /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/
>>
>> Any reason the old /usr/share/vim/ shouldn't be on the default runtimepath?

Looking at other distros it seems using /usr/share/vim/vimX is the place for 
system-wide configurations.  Not saying that's right or wrong.

/M

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