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nobodyuknow

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Registered: 2017-09-10

Posts: 174  

SOLVED: Error detected while processing /home/nobody/.vimrc

Every time I build a Devuan system, and some other distros, I disable colored vi. It's always been simple: create a .vimrc file and insert "syntax off" into it.

But now I get an error:

vi .bashrc
Error detected while processing /home/nobody/.vimrc:
line    1:
E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: syntax off
Press ENTER or type command to continue

Here's the contents of .vimrc:

cat .vimrc
syntax off

And it's in the correct location:

pwd
/home/nobody

Did something change recently in vi?

P.S. In case it matters, this is Cinnamon.

Last edited by nobodyuknow (2020-12-16 18:33:19)

bgstack15

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Registered: 2018-02-04

Posts: 205  

Re: SOLVED: Error detected while processing /home/nobody/.vimrc

Make sure that you have "vim" package installed and not just "vim-tiny." That sounds like you've got the bare minimum vi implementation in a Debian-like system.

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nobodyuknow

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Registered: 2017-09-10

Posts: 174  

Re: SOLVED: Error detected while processing /home/nobody/.vimrc

Thanks for the reply. Yes, that was exactly the problem. Strange that it never happened before, as I use vi to edit a number of files immediately after installation.