Cameron Simpson wrote: > A bit like Max, I would like syntax highlighting for vim. > > I know vim itself is colour capable because the "~" blank line markers and > warning messages are in different colours. However, my source code is in > boring monochrome. There do not seem to be variants to enable syntax > highighting, nor separate packages (or at least, my searches do not reveal > them to me). I've even build vim with the +huge variant to no avail.
There is no variant for it, because basically every vim installation has the ability to do colored syntax highlighting. You just need to configure vim to do it. Also, a google search for "vim syntax highlighting" revealed a lot of useful answers for me... Anyway, you need the following line in your .vimrc: syntax on See also :help colorscheme how to use other colors instead of the default. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
