I recently merged vim{-core,}-7.1-r1 and noticed that syntax highlighting doesn't work anymore. When I use :syn on for pretty any file, I get: Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/syntax.vim: line 42: E216: No such group or event: filetypedetect BufRead Incidentally, on my workstation, I have compiled vim{core,}-7.1-r1 with exactly the same USE flags, where syntax highlighting works perfectly. Only difference: mey WS is a P4, the machine with the error is a Quad-Opteron emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.20.7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20.7 x86_64 Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:20:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=opteron" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=opteron" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userprivi" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync5.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alsa amd64 animgif apache2 arts bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt dbus dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ mad midi mikmod mp3 ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml xorg xpm xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i810 mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I got this kind of error when -core and the gui (term/X) packages where of different revision. Are you sure that the core is updated and that the files where installed (no CONFIG_PROTECT, or similar)?
# eix -c -I -n vim [I] app-editors/vim (7.1-r1@05/16/2007): Vim, an improved vi-style text editor [I] app-editors/vim-core (7.1-r1@05/16/2007): vim and gvim shared files Found 2 matches. # I'd say it's in sync. Also, etc-update reports no files to merge. I remerged both packages, to no avail.
What does :scriptnames say?
1: /etc/vim/vimrc 2: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/syntax.vim 3: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/synload.vim 4: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/syncolor.vim 5: /home/klausman/.vim/filetype.vim 6: /usr/share/vim/vim71/filetype.vim 7: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/gentoo.vim 8: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/nagios.vim 9: /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin.vim 10: /home/klausman/.vimrc 11: /usr/share/vim/vim71/macros/matchit.vim 12: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/nosyntax.vim 13: /usr/share/vim/vim71/colors/murphy.vim 14: /home/klausman/.vim/plugin/DrawIt.vim 15: /home/klausman/.vim/plugin/calendar.vim 16: /home/klausman/.vim/plugin/gnupg.vim 17: /home/klausman/.vim/plugin/taglist.vim 18: /home/klausman/.vim/plugin/tex_autoclose.vim 19: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/bugsummary.vim 20: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/gentoo-common.vim 21: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/newebuild.vim 22: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/newinitd.vim 23: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/newmetadata.vim 24: /usr/share/vim/vim71/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vim 25: /usr/share/vim/vim71/plugin/gzip.vim 26: /usr/share/vim/vim71/plugin/matchparen.vim 27: /usr/share/vim/vim71/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim 28: /usr/share/vim/vim71/plugin/rrhelper.vim 29: /usr/share/vim/vim71/plugin/spellfile.vim 30: /usr/share/vim/vim71/plugin/tarPlugin.vim 31: /usr/share/vim/vim71/plugin/tohtml.vim 32: /usr/share/vim/vim71/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim 33: /usr/share/vim/vim71/plugin/zipPlugin.vim 34: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/cfg.vim 35: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/nagios.vim 36: /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/vim.vim 37: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/vim.vim 38: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/perl.vim 39: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/ruby.vim 40: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/python.vim 41: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/tcl.vim 42: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/scheme.vim
Nevermind. I just found it. Some weird script setup with another user mashed up the script paths. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
