Hey Everybody!

I have a funny sort of question!

I have SuSe 9.0 (oh no! I am out of date!)

The program used most often by me is vi. (For interfacing anyway). I write all my scripts in vi (I am such a nerd! ). I have noticed something in the last few months.


On some systems, vi will do syntax colouring for PHP scripts, and many other things too.

On my machine it does not. How do I get it to do syntax colouring?

Secondly, I noticed that on some systems you can use the backspace key.

For me, I can only use the backspace key on text I just wrote. When I am in insert mode, I want to be able to backspace any character(including line feed!!!!!) It seems that after writing text, if I hit any other key (esc, arrow keys etc....), the backspace key does not work and I have to use arrow key and delete. I do not like this. And if I hit enter, that is it, there is no way to get my text back to the previous line, without crazy cutting and pasting (which I have not quite got a handle on).

Also, it seems I have misplace some commands such as startproc, init and shutdown. I do not know where they went....(embarassed look on my face) I think I may have inadvertantly deleted them. So my system has now been up for:
11:30am up 29 days 5:05, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.01

Important question is syntax colouring and backspace key.

Thanks

David

Try using vim instead of vi... On many modern day machines vi is just a symbol link to vim in /bin.

I'll copy my .vimrc file in here so you can see what my options look like:

Thanks

I had no idea where to look..

To do what I wanted with the backspace key

add

set backspace=eol,start,indent


to the .vimrc file


Thanks again!!

Alright, I just moved from suse to gentoo. I copied my .vimrc. But syntax colouring only does white. (Cyan for folded code).

What am I missing?

David

set ignorecase
set cindent
set shiftwidth=5
set tabstop=5
" set textwidth=80
set expandtab
set ruler
" some colors: "white on black"
hi normal ctermfg=white ctermbg=black guifg=white guibg=black
hi nontext ctermfg=blue ctermbg=black guifg=blue guibg=black
" Syntax Hilighting
syntax on

" enables real tabs for Makefiles only
augroup Makefile
au!
au BufReadPre Makefile set noexpandtab
augroup END

" vim -b : edit binary using xxd-format!
augroup Binary
au!
au BufReadPre *.bin let &bin=1
au BufReadPost *.bin if &bin | %!xxd
au BufReadPost *.bin set ft=xxd | endif
au BufWritePre *.bin if &bin | %!xxd -r
au BufWritePre *.bin endif
au BufWritePost *.bin if &bin | %!xxd
au BufWritePost *.bin set nomod | endif
augroup END
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set foldmethod=marker

I did emerge --search syntax, and found lots of options but non are for php.

I found that php.vim exists in /usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax.

I have syntax on in .vimrc. What am I missing?

I just realized what I am missing. My php scripts are not named php. They have a different extension. Where do I tell vim that this special extension is really just php files?

David

I figured it out. Trouble was in the file extension. Here we name our php files. .coolness. So I went into /usr/share/vim/vim70/.

filetype.old is a backup of filetype.vim. I made the changes in filetype.vim.

Hope this helps someone.

--- filetype.old 2006-09-20 10:09:16.000000000 -0400
+++ filetype.vim 2006-09-20 10:09:23.000000000 -0400
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.pod setf pod

" Php, php3, php4, etc.
-au BufNewFile,BufRead *.php,*.php\d setf php
+au BufNewFile,BufRead *.coolness,*.php,*.php\d setf php

" Phtml
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.phtml setf phtml