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I just installed spf13 vim on my machine with CentOS. One thing I noticed is that I was not able to set "syntax on" by default. enter image description here

The difference are the parenthesis color and the GLOB color. The default color is very light on my monitor, so really want to set syntax on by default.

I am not sure what went wrong. Here is my ~/.vimrc.local 

filetype plugin on
syntax on
Zack
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Setting up vim defaults can be funky on new installs.

First, confirm that the rc is being sourced.

  1. Place the line echom "file is sourced on startup" into your .vimrc.
  2. Open a new instance of vim. Type :messages then <return>. If you don't see that line, the file isn't being sourced.

To find out where vim is looking for your .vimrc:

  1. Enter the command :echo $HOME. The folder it outputs is a good place to try putting a .vimrc or .vimrc.local file. Try both of those.
    • Also try :e $MYVIMRC, which might find the file you need to edit anyway.

Finally, make sure to put set nocompatible in your rc.

silico-biomancer
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