debian config not working

[Randall Smith]

Sorry, meant to post to the debian group.

Randall Smith wrote:
> My vim configuration is not working.  Here is my ~/.vimrc file.
> 
> set sw=4
> set ts=4
> set nobackup
> set nowritebackup
> syntax on
> colorscheme murphy
> au FileType python source ~/.vim/syntax/python.vim
> 
> colorscheme works, but some other things don't
> 
> sw=4 does not work, neither does shiftwidth=4
> ts=4 does not work, neither does tabstop=4
> 
> When I crank up vim and type :set tabstop, it says it is set to 8.  I 
> get no errors when starting up vim.  What's going on.  I'm about to pull 
> my hair out.  I can manually set it within vim by :set tabstop=4. 
> GRRRRRRRRRRR!  Anybody know when its not taking my settings from .vimrc? 
>  Also gvim is not taking my python.vim file.
> 
> Randall