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Old 03-17-2009, 12:10 AM   #1
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LXer: How to make vi colorful on xubuntu


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We started to study shell programming in school and we use VI to code some scripts. I noticed that all my colleagues using vi on ubuntu are very irritated and seem to envy their friends who use VI on Fedora 10 because it's very easy to use and colorful, it helps to detect syntax errors. Some of my friends started to regret installing Ubuntu instead of Fedora and even blamed me for recommending it. As an Ubuntu fan I looked for a solution for this tiny problem.

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Old 03-17-2009, 05:43 AM   #2
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Some of my friends started to regret installing Ubuntu instead of Fedora and even blamed me for recommending it.
Yep, that's the Ubuntu community. No colors in vim? Clearly wrong OS installed.
 
  


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