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

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 08:26:30PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> 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.
> 
Ah, oops, I'd changed VILE_STARTUP_PATH and hadn't added the default
/usr/share/vile so it wasn't finding *any* vile.keywords.  The strace
showed this up beautifully, thank you!

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Chris Green