Add the following to ~/.vimrc
syntax off
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Charles Lockhart wrote:
I'm running rh7.3. The default setting for vim is, or seems to be, having
the syntax highlighting crap turned on (I thought it was supposed to be
OFF by default). And I keep looking, but I can't find the
Please keep the free world safe by
telling me how to turn the damn syntax highlighting crap off forever.
Please. I just can't take it anymore.
As Myles said, you can turn syntax off with syntax off (or :syntax
off) in your ~/.vimrc, but
if you have the vim-minimal package installed then
Hey Ray,
sometimes I like using the line numbering feature in vi, but hate the way
it's implemented in vim. Do you know if the minimal package you speak of
implements line numbering in the standard vi way?
best,
Bill
Please keep the free world safe by
telling me how to turn the damn syntax
sometimes I like using the line numbering feature in vi, but hate the way
it's implemented in vim. Do you know if the minimal package you speak of
implements line numbering in the standard vi way?
Well, I've really only used vim, but I just tried vi on a SunOS box
(uhunix2)
and line
