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Operating Systems AIX [Vim] Question about syntax highlighting Post 302733837 by bakunin on Wednesday 21st of November 2012 07:39:19 AM
Old 11-21-2012
As i like my editor windows the same way as i like my steaks (that is: as rare as possible and not cooked at all) i once researched to make vim behave as close to vi as was possible. I'd still like to see a "vi-compatibility mode".

Colours in vim chave to be switched on/off in three different steps. All the following command can be tested (issue from the ":"-prompt lasts only this session) in a session or/and be put into .exrc for a lasting effect.


Syntax-Highlighting
is switched with the "syntax" parameter:

Code:
syntax on
syntax off


Search-Highlighting
searching with "/" causes the terms searched for to be highlighted regardless of syntax highlighting. It can be switched by:

Code:
set hlsearch
set nohlsearch


Colour-Scheme
Even with everything turned off there is still the class of non-printing characters (the "^M" in DOS-files for instance) which are displayed in some sort of stand-out mode. This will take care of that:

Code:
set t_Co=0

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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vimtutor

VIMTUTOR(1)						      General Commands Manual						       VIMTUTOR(1)

NAME

       vimtutor - the Vim tutor

SYNOPSIS

       vimtutor [-g] [language]

DESCRIPTION

       Vimtutor starts the Vim tutor.  It copies the tutor file first, so that it can be modified without changing the original file.

       The Vimtutor is useful for people that want to learn their first Vim commands.

       The optional argument -g starts vimtutor with gvim rather than vim, if the GUI version of vim is available, or falls back to Vim if gvim is
       not found.

       The optional [language] argument is the two-letter name of a language, like "it" or "es".  If the [language] argument is missing, the  lan-
       guage  of  the current locale will be used.  If a tutor in this language is available, it will be used.	Otherwise the English version will
       be used.

       Vim is always started in Vi compatible mode.

FILES

       /usr/share/vim/vim80/tutor/tutor[.language]
		      The Vimtutor text file(s).

       /usr/share/vim/vim80/tutor/tutor.vim
		      The Vim script used to copy the Vimtutor text file.

AUTHOR

       The Vimtutor was originally written for Vi by Michael C. Pierce and Robert K. Ware, Colorado  School  of  Mines	using  ideas  supplied	by
       Charles Smith, Colorado State University.  E-mail: bware@mines.colorado.edu.
       It was modified for Vim by Bram Moolenaar.  For the names of the translators see the tutor files.

SEE ALSO

       vim(1)

								   2001 April 2 						       VIMTUTOR(1)
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