[haiku-development] Re: Alpha 1 praises / vim gripes.

  • From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:27:41 +0000

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Alexander von Gluck
<kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Good afternoon all,
>
> First let me say the Alpha 1 Haiku image is looking great, running it on my
> Dell Optiplex SX270 and everything works great (even sound!).  Heck, Haiku
> this close to R1 is giving me the warm fuzzies.
>
> I do a have a silly complaint about vim though, I am way too spoiled
> editing C,C++,etc in color vim.
> vim 7.2/color support
> This can be enabled by:
> updating the vim packages to the 7.2 ones on haiku-files.org or adding the
> syntax files to /etc/vim/syntax/ in 6.3
> adding ' export TERM=xterm-color ' to the /etc/profile (this works but may
> not be 100% proper.)
> adding ' syntax enable ' to vimrc or leaving it to the user to run a '
> :syntax enable '
>
> anyway, here is to happy and bug free alpha 1!
>
> --
> Thanks!
> Alexander von Gluck
>
>

Sorry about vim, we were going to rip it out but didn't get to it.
You can use Pe to see things in color or get the newer version of vim
as you say.
-scottmc

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