GVIM with colored syntax -} How?

BlueSpirit · 10-27-2006, 06:08 PM

Hello,

Before, I was on Fedora Core 4, and i was loving VIM.
The letters in a source where in color...

Now, on Slackware 11.0... No COLORS!!!
I like GVIM, but what I like in it is colors...

I tried :syntax enable, but its not the good syntax highlighting.

Heres a picture of what I want :
http://www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/soft...vim-gtk2.0.png

The good syntax highlighting is like that... I would rly like to have exactly like it...

Im learning C, and to program, I would like a good editor...

Thanx alot, very appreciated...

Blue

Alien Bob · 10-27-2006, 06:16 PM

My gvim in Slackware 11.0 has syntax colour enabled.
Do you have a ~/.vimrc which overrides the coloured syntax in /usr/share/vim/vimrc ?

If your /usr/share/vim/vimrc has

Code:

" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
  syntax on
  set hlsearch
endif

and still the app shows no colors, there could be something else disabling colors, but I don't have a clue what that would be. Here for me, it "just" works.

Eric

BlueSpirit · 10-27-2006, 06:20 PM

I don't rly know whats going on...
My Slackware 11.0 is new... So I don't think something can interfer.

4 example, when I do :

{}

the {} is highlighted in blue, but its like on the letters, not the letters that have the color.

***** ITS RLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU CHECK THE PICTURE! *****

Thanx.

Alien Bob · 10-27-2006, 06:29 PM

I checked the picture, thank you. This is how it looks on my computer: http://alienbase.nl/gvim_colorhighlight.png - the usual, normal, syntax colouring just like yours.

And please write "really" as "really" and not "rly", and "for" as "for" and not as "4" if I am to take you seriously.

Eric

BlueSpirit · 10-27-2006, 06:32 PM

OK OK OK...

I have color highlighting... But I still have a problem :

I ONLY have color highlighting when I open a file, for example, a C file: .c

The color works only with the extensions...
But not like NORMALLY... How to solve the problem?

Thanx

Alien Bob · 10-27-2006, 06:42 PM

Ah, that is what you meant! Gvim does not know what kind of syntax you're writing util you save the file once, and then it will use the filename extension (.c , .html etc...) to determine the default syntax.
You can also choose the desired syntax from the "syntax" menu.

Eric

BlueSpirit · 10-27-2006, 06:51 PM

YAY! We got the blem... Thanx

A Real LOT!

Im gonna write C with color! Yay.

Thanx alot LORD OF THE GVIM