Re: [vile] Problem with syntax highlighting in vile 9.8l

[Brendan O'Dea]

On 2 June 2016 at 19:03, Chris Green <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have installed the packages vile, vile-common and vile-filters and
> I've copied my customised vile.keywords over the default one in
> /usr/share/vile.
>
> The syntax highlighting colours stay stubbornly at the default, not my
> custom colours.  What have I missed? Is there something
> broken/different about how syntax highlighting is handled in 9.8l?

This works fine me with vile-9.8l on Ubuntu (which should be just a
binary rebuild of the Debian package).

Note: I didn't modify /usr/share/vile/vile.keywords, but copied it to
~/.vile.keywords and edited that.

If you want to verify that you're picking up the correct file, try
running vile under strace:

  strace -etrace=file -o/tmp/t vile foo.c

then grep for vile.keywords in /tmp/t, which will show you which one
it is finding.

--bod