title: Locally installed VIM Syntax not loading
body: <p>Whenever I load VIM 7.0 on my machine I understand that the program loads a lot of things from the path <code>/usr/share/vim/vim70/</code>. Now I have install locally (in the path <code>./vim74/src/vim</code>) the new version of VIM because I am not a sudo user. The problem I have is that it looks like program is searching for files in a directory that does not exist i.e. <code>/usr/local/share/vim/</code>. I cannot create such a directory so I wondered how could I set vim to look in the correct directory?</p>
  
  <p>For reference I get error messages like</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error detected while processing /home/hep/flr09/.vimrc:
  line   51:
  E484: Can't open file /usr/local/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim
  Warning: Cannot find word list "en.utf-8.spl" or "en.ascii.spl"
  line  292:
  E484: Can't open file /usr/local/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim
  Press ENTER or type command to continue
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or like</p>
  
  <pre><code>Warning: Cannot find word list "en.utf-8.spl" or "en.ascii.spl"
  Error detected while processing /home/hep/flr09/.vimrc:
  line  292:
  E484: Can't open file /usr/local/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim
  Press ENTER or type command to continue
  </code></pre>