how to permanently enable syntax highlghting in VIM?

[Mr Shunz]

On 10/18/07, Gabriel Dragffy <gabe at dragffy.com> wrote:
>
>
> but what is wrong with it, I made the change and now I always get an
> error:
>
> Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimrc:
> line   20:
> E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: syntax on
> Press ENTER or type command to continue

Hi, you should install the "vim" package,
ubuntu by default installs vim-tiny which
doesn't support syntax highlighting:

sudo apt-get install vim

that's it!

cheers

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