This is new and odd.

I do almost all text editing in vim, typically in color-capable 
iTerm2 windows on my Mac. As far as I know, the system vim 
installation hasn't been updated or altered in any way for quite some 
time, perhaps since the OS was installed two years ago.

In the past couple days, however, I've seen a new thing. Regardless of 
the 'filetype' or 'syntax' setting of the editing window (e.g., 
dosini, perl, puppet, sh), I'm getting stray highlighting on strings 
that match this regex:

   =.*$

It'll match the first equal sign in the string and continue to the end 
of the line.

Worst of all is that the highlighted block shows up with a yellow 
background and dark gray text, meaning it's obnoxious in addition to 
unwanted.

The effect is limited to vim, but it's not limited to iTerm2; the 
Apple Terminal app shows the same symptoms. If I ssh in the same 
terminal window to another host and run vim remotely, I don't see the 
same problem. I've logged out and rebooted and the problem has 
persisted.

Any ideas as to the culprit?

Anyone wishing to suggest emacs or another editor as a solution can 
send replies to root@localhost. :-)

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/
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