Sybren Stuvel wrote: > John Salerno enlightened us with: >> I'd really like to learn vim, but I spent days just trying to figure >> out how to get the syntax highlighting and indentation working, >> where these settings are and how to edit them > > Stop being a man and just ask for directions :)
Oh don't worry, I have no shame. I was asking a ton of questions, yet I still couldn't figure it out. > >> It just feels so insurmountable that I can't even start working with >> it yet because I don't know how to tailor the settings. > > "vim ~/.vimrc" is all you need on any system but Windows. There IIRC > you need to edit C:\Program Files\VIM\_vimrc. But what about customizing syntax coloring? Is this also in the same file? I've noticed a separate file called python.vim (in Windows, this file exists in a 'syntax' folder, and also another file of the same name in an 'indent' folder, so I'm *still* confused about which files are used for which settings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
