Re: [vile] Lost syntax highlighting - how to diagnose?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 06:51:28PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 06:33:33PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > No, it's a "built by me" vile.  By "I haven't changed my .vilerc" I mean
> > that I haven't changed it since the colours stopped working.
> > 
> > 
> > > One possibility is that your filters are external (separate programs
> > > rather than built-in or loadable) and that there is something amiss
> > > with your shell initialization which is preventing them from running.
> > > 
> > That sounds quite possible.  How would I tell?  The filters are in
> > /usr/lib/vile and appear to be as one would expect:-
> > 
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18456 2011-05-09 12:08 vile-bat-filt.so
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14264 2011-05-09 12:08 vile-bnf-filt.so
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14296 2011-05-09 12:08 vile-c-filt.so
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14264 2011-05-09 12:08 vile-cfg-filt.so
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18424 2011-05-09 12:08 vile-conf-filt.so
> > etc.
> > 
> > 
> > > The show-colors command does not use filters.
> > > 
> > No, I was just saying that to confirm that my display works OK with
> > vile. 
> > 
> 
> !! All OK, I've just rebuilt from the same source and now it works.  All
> I can think is that some underlying library has moved on as I have
> updated my system and broke something in vile on the way.
> 
> Sorry for the noise.

no problem (the symptom is not familiar, but I may find it sometime).

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