At 2005-01-11T11:35:27+1300, Rex Johnston wrote:
> Carl Cerecke wrote:
> >>3. vim -R
> >
> >Yes, but, I don't really get along well with vi. (Is this just a lame
> >excuse?). Also, it didn't actually do any syntax highlighting. But I did
> >get to practice my one known vi command, :q!
> Perhaps your vim installation is old/broken.
That's possible, but it's more likely that his vim is defaulting to 'vi
compatible' mode, which includes no syntax highlighting. vim used to
behave this way with many distributions. If you create a ~/.vimrc file
and stick 'syntax on' in it, you'll get coloured syntax highlighting on
any terminal that will support it.
Cheers,
-mjg
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