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Hi i have vim6 and upgraded to vim7.

I have both versions. vim6 runs fine.

Upgraded vim7 runtimepath has /usr/local/share/vim/... this path does not exist, contain anyfiles

I am trying to get the colorscheme to work. When I set syntax on, I get that /usr/local/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim not found error.

So i found the syntax.vim at ~/vim/runtime/syntax/syntax.vim So I updated the runtimepath using execute pathogen#infect('bundle/{}', '~/vim/runtime/{}')

the old vim still works, and has updated runtimepath. the new vim73 still has the updated runtimepaths , but when on syntax on it gives an error looking for the file at the old path that never existed.

so how do i remove path from the runtimepath

i also thanks

edit

upgrade was to 7.4 from 7.3.547

compiled with python as follows: ./configure --enable-pythoninterp --with-features=huge --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu/

make

hack

whats wrong with just ln -s ~/vim/runtime/ /usr/local/share/vim/ ? or just copy the file that i need to get syntax, and hopefully color ..

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With a path of /usr/local/share/..., it looks like you've compiled Vim yourself from the sources. sudo make install should have taken care of the copying of the runtime files to that location. What you did with Pathogen is definitely not the right way to fix it.

Unless you're on a very old or poorly maintained Linux distribution, it should be possible to obtain a current Vim package (that is, a 7.4 version) through your distribution's package manager (on Debian-based systems, it's commonly called vim-gnome). Unless you need to have the bleeding edge version (unlikely in your case with the former Vim 6), or incorporate custom patches, that is the easy and recommended approach.

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