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Asked: 2026-06-05T20:30:40+00:00

I have written a vim script for highlighting the syntax of a proprietary query

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I have written a vim script for highlighting the syntax of a proprietary query language. It works fine on my Windows 7 machine running gvim 7.3, but it refuses to work on Linux (my test box is CentOS 6). I have gotten the built-in language highlight scripts to work in CentOS, but for some reason any custom syntax scripts I add to the /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax directory are not recognized even when I explicitly run

:set filetype=on
:set syntax=on
:set ft=cy

with cy.vim being the name of my syntax script. I checked out the ftplugin scripts to see if there was anything special pointing a filetype to a syntax script, but I couldn’t see anything… I have another cy.vim file there anyway which reads

augroup cy,Q,q
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cy,*.Q,*.q set filetype=cy 
augroup end

normally I just keep the above in my _vimrc file, but as I can’t even get the highlighting to work with explicit commands I doubt automatic filetype recognition on load would work.
Can anyone shed some light on why my syntax script works perfectly on Windows but not at all on Linux? I have tried all the usual avenues already, such as making sure I have vim-common/vim-full/vim-enhanced installed rather than vim-minimal/vim-tiny. Any help would be appreciated!

thanks,
CCJ

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  1. Editorial Team

    I believe the issue may have been with my xterm settings; on Solaris I ran into the same problem until I explicitly set the xterm window to support text colors and updated ncurses, per the wiki here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_colors_to_work_on_solaris
    I haven’t been able to revisit on CentOS Linux yet, but this solved the problem for Solaris

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