On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:24:03AM -0800, exits funnel wrote:
> First the vi question: I primarily use emacs but like
> to be able to fire up vi every once in a while if I
> just have a quick edit to make. Anyway, I've recently
> installed RedHat 7.3 and when I launch vi there is a
> bit of a problem with the display color. The tildes
> along the left edge of the screen as well as the
> default insert color of the text are a very dark blue.
> When contrasted with the black background it's nearly
> impossible to read. So, is there a way I can change
> the color from this dark blue to something else
> (preferably white)?
The default vi clone on RH is vim. While I normally use elvis instead,
I believe in vim you can turn off the "syntax highlighting" (which is
what gives you that awful color) by doing:
:se syn=off
from my notoriously flaky memory.
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