Before installing gvim, syntax highlighting with my vim 6.3 worked fine. Then I installed gvim 6.4. Now when I run vim I get this message: clock@kestrel:~$ vim Error detected while processing /etc/vim/vimrc: line 87: E484: Can't open file /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim Error detected while processing /home/clock/.vimrc: line 4: E484: Can't open file /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim /home/clock/.vimrc line 4 reads "syn on". The directory /usr/share/vim exists and directory /usr/share/vim/syntax doesn 't exist. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dga divx4linux dri dv dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomatic foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber jack java javascript jpeg kde lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww live matroska mhash mikmod ming mmap mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline real recode ruby samba sdl sharedmem shorten slang socks5 speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tls truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Post the exact versions of vim, vim-core and gvim, please...
Post the exact version you mean by exact version - do you mean the version as printed by the program, or version as indicated in the ebuild?
(In reply to comment #3) > Post the exact version you mean by exact version - do you mean the version as > printed by the program, or version as indicated in the ebuild? ebuild versions...
same problem for me -- I think the problem is that emerging gvim forces an upgrade to vim-core leaving vim at a lower version. upgrading vim fixed the problem for me.