[PLUG] Some programming questions

[Charles Allen]

meuserj wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Charles Allen wrote:
>
> >     I was wondering how you get syntax hilighting to work in Vim.. and
> > how you change the formatting rules for xemacs so that it doesn't keep
> > using weird indenting.   As a side note, does anyone know of a routine
> > in C that will pause for x amount of time(or a system call), independant
> > of the system's cpu speed?
> >
> > thanks a million,
> > -chuck
> >
>
> I can help you with the vim stuff.  The easiest thing to try is-
>         :syntax on
> in order for it to work you must have the runtime package installed.

and where may one find this mysticall package if :syntax on yields command
not implemented?

-chuck

>
> if that works you can ignore the rest of this e-mail.  If you get a
> message like /blah/blah/blahfoo/syntax.vim not found, then you need to set
> an environment variable in your favorite place for doing such things.
> First, verify that you have the vim runtime packages installed somewhere,
> and then set the VIMRUNTIME variable to it.  For example, my setup in my
> purdue home directory has it set at
> /home/champion/p/meuserj/share/vim/vim56/
> hope this helps.
>
> John