[ruby-talk:10092] Re: Vim syntax files again.

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, hipster wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001  22:16:32 +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> > vim 5.7 (gvim in fact) and my vim stuff lives in 
> > C:\Program Files\gvim57\vim\vim57
> 
> I'm terribly sorry. I was assuming a unix environment, too   :\

No problem, I use unix a lot but am trying to get this Win98 machine
setup with a better editor than Wordpad!
> 
> > > if you've put the cfg-files elsewhere, e.g. ~/lib/vim
> > > in ~/.vimrc
> > 
> > I don't seem to have a .vimrc (which is the Unix convention.
> > I do have an _vimrc in directory:
> > C:\Program Files\gvim57\vim
> > though
> 
> is equivalent, however introducing the notion of a home directory on
> windows and putting your customizations there would make sense. Vim
> docs give $HOME/_vimrc or $VIM/_vimrc as the default for ./vimrc

OK, I think in my case it is the latter, see below.
> 
> > > 	let &runtimepath="~/lib/vim," . &runtimepath
> > 
> > What files should reside there?  I have a thing called: vimrun.exe in
> > C:\Program Files\gvim57\vim\vim57
> 
> It has filetypes, menus, syntax files etc. Type ':echo &runtimepath'
> inside vim to see its current value. Vim docs say the PC default is
> "$HOME/vimfiles,$VIM/vimfiles,$VIMRUNTIME".
> 

Here is what it thinks these things are:

:echo $HOME
C:/	# Yes, a forward slash.
:echo $VIM
C:\Program Files\gvim57\vim
:echo &runtimepath
Invalid expression: &runtimepath
:echo $RUNTIMEPATH
	# Nothing at all
:echo $VIMRUNTIME
C:\Program Files\gvim57\vim\vim57	# Wherein lies my syntax dir. etc

> > > in ~/.vim/filetype
> > 
> > I don't seem to have this file "filetype" anywhere, not even in
> > C:\Program Files\gvim57\vim\vim57\syntax
> 
> Correct; the idea is to create it yourself to add new filetypes.
> See ':help new-filetype'
> 
Oh, yes, it talks about creating my_filetypes to extend vim's ideas of
what things are...

> > I can see that stuff when the doc directory is installed at
> > 
> > C:\Program Files\gvim57\vim\vim57\doc
> > 
> > but nothing that looks relevant to my problem.
> > 
> > > If you're using vim 6.0, put the ruby.vim syntax file in the
> > > ~/.vim/syntax directory.
> > It is here at the moment:
> > C:\Program Files\gvim57\vim\vim57\syntax
> > 
> > I tried moving it to:
> > C:\Program Files\gvim57\vim\syntax
> > before, but this didn't help.  Maybe I should move the current ./syntax/*.*
> > to ./*.* to get it to work then?
> 
> There should normally be no need to change the standard layout. I'm

When I moved them I got error messages, so I put them back. :-)

> not familiar with the windows-platform however, maybe someone with
> specific experience could help you here.
> 
> general warning: syntax coloring options and the file layout changed
> quite a bit from 5.x to 6.0. It might be beneficial to skip to 6.0 to
> avoid having to redo everything. I've been using the 6.0 alpha's for
> quite while now and they never crashed on me.

OK, I tend to use stable releases where possible, because I work on the
basis that I am good enough at introducing my own errors, without trying
to guess if they are due to code that is "still wet". :-)
> 
> 	Michel
> 
	Hugh