Comments on: Magic Syntax Enable in VIM http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2007/04/17/magic-syntax-enable-in-vim/ Tim Ottinger on Christianity, freedom, software, podcasts, and really hot-looking guitars. Fri, 16 May 2008 03:23:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Rhys http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2007/04/17/magic-syntax-enable-in-vim/#comment-588 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:32:21 +0100 http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2007/04/17/magic-syntax-enable-in-vim/#comment-588 Hi, I have a feeling that syntax enable also set the option 'nocompatible' and this is why everything started to work. Actually, it seems that as soon as a vimrc exists, nocompatible is turned on. <i>Tim Says <blockquote> Yes. I probably missed that detail. I actaully was giddy when I realized that the 'syntax enable' had to be in the .vimrc file, and didn't work from the ':' command-line mode in the same way. I thought I'd solved the whole thing. I'll play with this and see how it turns out. </blockquote> </i> Hi,
I have a feeling that syntax enable also set the option ‘nocompatible’ and this is why everything started to work. Actually, it seems that as soon as a vimrc exists, nocompatible is turned on.

Tim Says

Yes. I probably missed that detail. I actaully was giddy when I realized that the ’syntax enable’ had to be in the .vimrc file, and didn’t work from the ‘:’ command-line mode in the same way. I thought I’d solved the whole thing. I’ll play with this and see how it turns out.

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