bob jones wrote:
>
> Thanks in advance to whomever can help with my next color problem, and
> with inconveniences in using the new versions of vim/vi/view.
>
> In RHL 6.2, vim wants to show colors on the editing display. It makes
> editing difficult, so I turned it off in the .vimrc file (syntax off).
> However, in some cases color would be helpful, and I tried to understand
> how to customize the vim color display. I'm just not smart enough. The
> trail through all the vim configurating stuff is too complicated, in
> fact it seems convoluted. Can anyone help with this ??
>
I feel your pain :-) The only thing I found that helped and in fact
makes it (especially gvim IMNSOHO) a pretty kickass editor is to tell
vim about the background color using :set bg=dark or set bg=light
depending on the background of the xterm or gvim background. At least
the colors are readable if the setting is correct.
> Another vim problem is this: if $HOME/.vimrc exists, then the old vi
> editor (/bin/vi) is not compatible with the .vimrc file, and doesn't
> apparently look at the .exrc file as it did in the past. This makes both
> vi and view kind of ugly to use. Is this problem unavoidable? Can both
> vim and vi be nicely available, so that color (vim) is available and no
> color (vi) are easily available on the command line?
I get the nastygrams when I exit vi too. I think the issue is that vi
is actually vim in some sort of compatibility mode try vi -version and
see what you get.
If someone can figure out the syntax highlighting files I would not mind
a pointer to a readable document about how to tweak them because they
are uuuuugly.
HTH
Bret
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