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:syntax enable is synonimous to syntax on and cannot enable colouring if the code for doing the stuff wasn't enabled at compile time IMHO.

lcs01, If it is a compile-time switch, the code for syntax highlighting might not have been included at all in your binary. I am afraid a recompile is a must in this case. Clean way to do this is to uninstall system's vim package and configure vim to install under /usr/local. I.e. %...

Hi lcs01, Your terminal is xterm which is sufficient for color display, but as I suspected, there is a -syntax switch in your vim --version output. Which means, sadly, that whoever is maintaining vim package at Redhat thinks you don't need syntax highlighting. At my Debian sarge, vim is...

The problem with this solution is that it does not erase journal. So, if a number of blocks is written down on disk in journal prior to committing, it is possible that it will remain there even after entire disk is used up by zero-ing a file. Journal space is highly unlikely reported as a free...

Can you give the output of ``env''? Also, it would be useful to have the output of ``vim --version'' It may be that the syntax highlighting was not included at compile time in your distribution's vim. It is unlikely for a popular distribution like Ubuntu, but let us eliminate that. mtodorov69