On 17/1/12 03:04, "Vlad Irnov" <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's easy to make such mistake if selected text in Visual mode does > not stand out and looks similar to Folded lines. Then you may not > notice that you are in Visual mode. This is unfortunately a problem > with many Vim color schemes, including the default one for GUI. They > use the same or similar background color for selected text (Visual), > folded lines (Folded), and current line/column (CursorLine, > CursorColumn) highlight groups. I recommend setting background color > for Visual selection to some bright, garish color that is different > from all other highlightings. Something like CadetBlue2 or cyan. Then > you will always know when you are in Visual mode. If you use default > GUI colorscheme, try putting this in your .vimrc: > hi Visual gui=NONE guifg=NONE guibg=CadetBlue2 The plugin Powerline <https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline> is invaluable for identifying which mode you're in along with being able to tell easily if a file's been modified & plenty of other Good Stuff. As its name suggests it replaces & pimps your statusline. Cheers, Phil... -- Some [people] feel that the best way to improve Perl would be to go back in time and shoot the author before he wrote it. -Larry Wall -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
