NO highlighting in VI editor

anuj_sri · 04-29-2007, 11:55 PM

Hi
My vi editor does not show any different colors for keywords like int,char etc.. ITs all in one color..
I installed vim, but even that did not help.
Can anyone suggest me something..so that i can get a colorful vi

slakmagik · 04-30-2007, 03:46 AM

If you're using vim, you might want something like

Code:

syntax on
filetype plugin indent on

in your ~/.vimrc. vi (in the sense of nvi) doesn't do syntax highlighting and I forget what the configs are for elvis and so on. You don't say what your distro is or what your default vi is.

anuj_sri · 04-30-2007, 09:18 AM

Hi
:syntax on -I tried this while editing the files. It works only with the files in /usr/local/share/vim/vim55/syntax/ directory
It doesn't work in other files outdide this directory?
what shall i do?

rickh · 04-30-2007, 10:24 AM

Un-comment the syntax line in /etc/vim/vimrc