[Fwd: Re: gvim 7 highlight search string]
I believe this was meant for the vim mailing list... ---BeginMessage--- Thanks all for the replies. I have a relatively fresh install of Debian Testing. I don't believe I have manually modified any system-level configuration files. All my settings are in ~/.gvimrc and ~/.vimrc Actually this is happening on two systems. My debian testing system at home and my work machine which is running RHEL 4. I believe I compiled vim/gvim from source at work, although here at home I'm using the debian packaged one. On 6/1/07, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian E. Lozier wrote: In the old gvim, doing a search (/something) highlights all something in red. In gvim 7, it doesn't highlight all occurrences. Is there a way to turn this back on? I suspect that you may be having problems because you made changes to files in files in your former $VIMRUNTIME (use :echo $VIMRUNTIME when running vim to see where that is). Those files should not be changed, added to, etc, unless you don't mind having to re-do all such changes when next you upgrade vim. Instead: * put settings, most customizations, etc in $HOME/.vimrc (linux) $HOME\_vimrc (windows) You can find out where your $HOME is by typing :echo $HOME when you're running vim. * Put plugins into $HOME/.vim/plugin/ (linux) $HOME\vimfiles\plugin\ (windows) * Put autoload plugins into $HOME/.vim/autoload/ (linux) $HOME\vimfiles\autoload\ (windows) * Put colorschemes into $HOME/.vim/colors/ (linux) $HOME\vimfiles\colors\ (windows) The setting in question here is: hls You'll probably should include the following in your .vimrc (_vimrc), too: set nocp if version = 600 filetype plugin indent on endif Regards, Chip Campbell ---End Message---
Re: gvim 7 highlight search string
Brian E. Lozier wrote: Thanks all for the replies. I have a relatively fresh install of Debian Testing. I don't believe I have manually modified any system-level configuration files. All my settings are in ~/.gvimrc and ~/.vimrc Actually this is happening on two systems. My debian testing system at home and my work machine which is running RHEL 4. I believe I compiled vim/gvim from source at work, although here at home I'm using the debian packaged one. Charles Campbell wrote: The setting in question here is: hls You'll probably should include the following in your .vimrc (_vimrc), too: set nocp if version = 600 filetype plugin indent on endif * do you have a $HOME/.vimrc file? (wasn't clear from your response; I wasn't referring to any manual modifications done to the new system level configuration files, but was wondering if your previous vim work depended on such manual modifications to the previous system level configuration files) * do you have (at least) the four lines mentioned above in your .vimrc file? (you'll probably want syntax on , too) * do you have set hls in your .vimrc file? * if you do have such a file, is it owned/readable by you? (some folks were having problems with $HOME/.viminfo files owned by root) * what does vim --version show? (I'm wondering here if its one of the minimal vim compiles) Regards, Chip Campbell
Re: gvim 7 highlight search string
Thanks all for the replies. I have a relatively fresh install of Debian Testing. I don't believe I have manually modified any system-level configuration files. All my settings are in ~/.gvimrc and ~/.vimrc Actually this is happening on two systems. My debian testing system at home and my work machine which is running RHEL 4. I believe I compiled vim/gvim from source at work, although here at home I'm using the debian packaged one. On 6/1/07, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian E. Lozier wrote: In the old gvim, doing a search (/something) highlights all something in red. In gvim 7, it doesn't highlight all occurrences. Is there a way to turn this back on? I suspect that you may be having problems because you made changes to files in files in your former $VIMRUNTIME (use :echo $VIMRUNTIME when running vim to see where that is). Those files should not be changed, added to, etc, unless you don't mind having to re-do all such changes when next you upgrade vim. Instead: * put settings, most customizations, etc in $HOME/.vimrc (linux) $HOME\_vimrc (windows) You can find out where your $HOME is by typing :echo $HOME when you're running vim. * Put plugins into $HOME/.vim/plugin/ (linux) $HOME\vimfiles\plugin\ (windows) * Put autoload plugins into $HOME/.vim/autoload/ (linux) $HOME\vimfiles\autoload\ (windows) * Put colorschemes into $HOME/.vim/colors/ (linux) $HOME\vimfiles\colors\ (windows) The setting in question here is: hls You'll probably should include the following in your .vimrc (_vimrc), too: set nocp if version = 600 filetype plugin indent on endif Regards, Chip Campbell
gvim 7 highlight search string
In the old gvim, doing a search (/something) highlights all something in red. In gvim 7, it doesn't highlight all occurrences. Is there a way to turn this back on? Thanks!
Re: gvim 7 highlight search string
In the old gvim, doing a search (/something) highlights all something in red. In gvim 7, it doesn't highlight all occurrences. Is there a way to turn this back on? It sounds like in the process, a vimrc (system-wide?) was changed. You don't mention your distro/OS, so it's hard to help there. However, in your $HOME/.vimrc (or _vimrc on Win32), you can simply add the line set hls to turn on highlighting your searches by default. If you just want to turn it on for a current session, you can use it as an Ex command: :set hls or toggle it with :set hls! Using this method, it's not preserved across runs of Vim though (which is what the vimrc is for). -tim
Re: gvim 7 highlight search string
On 6/1/07, Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the old gvim, doing a search (/something) highlights all something in red. In gvim 7, it doesn't highlight all occurrences. Is there a way to turn this back on? It sounds like in the process, a vimrc (system-wide?) was changed. You don't mention your distro/OS, so it's hard to help there. However, in your $HOME/.vimrc (or _vimrc on Win32), you can simply add the line set hls to turn on highlighting your searches by default. If you just want to turn it on for a current session, you can use it as an Ex command: :set hls or toggle it with :set hls! Using this method, it's not preserved across runs of Vim though (which is what the vimrc is for). -tim If Brian is running Ubuntu that could have happened. When I mentioned on the list how updating changes default (to Ubuntu) behavior this was another symptom (I think.) -- -fREW
Re: gvim 7 highlight search string
Brian E. Lozier wrote: In the old gvim, doing a search (/something) highlights all something in red. In gvim 7, it doesn't highlight all occurrences. Is there a way to turn this back on? I suspect that you may be having problems because you made changes to files in files in your former $VIMRUNTIME (use :echo $VIMRUNTIME when running vim to see where that is). Those files should not be changed, added to, etc, unless you don't mind having to re-do all such changes when next you upgrade vim. Instead: * put settings, most customizations, etc in $HOME/.vimrc (linux) $HOME\_vimrc (windows) You can find out where your $HOME is by typing :echo $HOME when you're running vim. * Put plugins into $HOME/.vim/plugin/ (linux) $HOME\vimfiles\plugin\ (windows) * Put autoload plugins into $HOME/.vim/autoload/ (linux) $HOME\vimfiles\autoload\ (windows) * Put colorschemes into $HOME/.vim/colors/ (linux) $HOME\vimfiles\colors\ (windows) The setting in question here is: hls You'll probably should include the following in your .vimrc (_vimrc), too: set nocp if version = 600 filetype plugin indent on endif Regards, Chip Campbell
