vim-7.3.943-1 missing command 'let g:colors_name = "elflord"' found in vim-common-7.3.943-1

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 5/17/2013 9:59 AM, David Griffiths wrote:
> Gary Johnson <garyjohn <at> spocom.com> writes:
>
>> This is not a bug.  See Yaakov's announcement in the list on May 12,
>> "[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.943-1".  He explains that the
>> packaging scheme has been changed and that /usr/bin/vi is now Vim
>> compiled with the "small" feature set.  The "small" feature set does
>> not include the +syntax or +eval feature and does not support either
>> the :syntax or :let command.
>
> Not a bug maybe but a strange thing to do. I just installed a completely
> unrelated package (p7zip) which just happened to drag in the latest version
> of vim. Suddenly I start seeing these E319 messages and the syntax
> highlighting has gone. Luckily I found the answer here via Google but I bet
> you're going to see a lot more people hit by this!

Running 'setup.exe' without any parameters updates all installed packages
by default.  Users can always elect to "keep" the installed version of any
package however.


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Larry

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