To best answer your initial question: 'How to install python syntax support in Vim': There is no need to install anything! If you have not made any modifications (e.g. No configuration changes for vim in /.vimrc) try the following:. Free movie maker software for mac. Open a Python file with vim. type the following command:syntax on You should now have VIM properly highlight your Python file. To avoid having to re-type those command over and over again, I would suggest you keep a configuration file for VIM.

1. Mac Vim Syntax Highlighting

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This is usually located in your home directory, if there is not one there already, create a /.vimrc file and add the syntax on directive there to have VIM automatically highlight your Python files. If you need to know more about structure/installation of plugins, then Senthil's answer is better suited:). For mac os x, the vimrc file is located in /usr/share/vim directory edit the vimdc file with any text editor. Add the syntax on to the last line of the file.

Mac Vim Syntax Highlighting

Then next time you start a file you can see color. This is a system wide setting. In other linux flavor it may be located in /etc/ you can find this file by find /etc -name vimdc. The edit will affect all the users on the machine. These setting can overwritten by the $HOME/.vimrc file. In your home you may also have a.vim directory. To check that you have these, do ls -a in your home directory.

I know you posted this a while ago, but. I am not familiar with this product, but I did check out there page since I was curious about the product. I am an Emacs person myself, and since I have not yet attempted to get X Windows (in any form) up and running yet, I cannot use my fav version of Emacs. In regards to your questions, I have a couple of thoughts. I am assuming that you downloaded the source and compiled in on your system since there does not seem to be an OS X binary (if there is an OS X binary, not just the 68, FAT and PPC ones. Ignore this whole migguided post).

If you did not do this there could be several reasons why some of the functions are not working. If you are using the PPC (or FAT) version of the app, it may be Classic incompatibilities. Again, I've not used this product but from their documentation it seems that the Mac OS binaries are for pre-X versions of the OS (the newest version they say they've tested in is OS9). If you are using a port for an other UNIX (or compiled the source), the gvim version requires X Windows.

I cat-ed the pkg-descr in the ports tree on my FreeBSD box. And well, here is what it told me (minus the working hyper-links of course): Vim is a virtually compatible, extreamly enhanced, version of the UNIX text editor vi. There are a lot of enhancements above Vi: multi level undo, multi-windows and buffers, syntax highlighting, command line editing, filename completion, on-line help, visual selection, etc. Many features above standard vi's have been added: multiple windows and buffers, multi level undo, command line history, filename completion, selection highlighting, block operations (including column/rectangular blocks), syntax highlighting, on-line help, etc. Embeded Perl, Tcl, and Python support. See ':help vidiff' for a summary of the differences between Vim and Vi. An X-windows aware or a full X-windows GUI version can also be built that allows full use of the mouse and pull-down menus See for a full explanation of Vim's features.

Portability to all UNIX platforms, AmigaOS, Archimedes, Atari MiNT, BeOS, M$-DOS, MacOS, OS/2, VMS, WinNT+Win95. David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu) WWW: As for the color not working on the term version, can't help you there. I have installed several things which use color (such as GNU fileutils which is a must have) and they all work.

However, I will ask my FreeBSD guru SO when he gets home and post any comments he has. To get VIM syntax colours you need to have the ncurses libraries installed. You can get them from ftp.gnu.org or various mirrors of this archive. Download the source and compile it. Now recompile vim. You may need to set your TERM environment variable to an ansi terminal. Under the bash shell you do this by executing, then.

I don't know how to do it under csh/tcsh but I am sure it is simmilar if not the same. Setting your term to ansi has some other side affects. SSH requires a terminal that supports 'cursors'.

ANSI terminals do but the termcap implimentation of 'ANSI' under MacOSX apparently doesn't. Fortunatly ssh will default to vt100 if it doesn't understand your terminal type. Frm bungee@montana.com.