editor - vim (vi) - removing colour capability.
 

Hi:
vim 7.1.
It loads a C source program and there's a lot of colour on the screen. The manual is dense. Anyone familiarized with it? If so, how can I do to disable colour highlighting. The
command likely to be as in vi. And although i once managed
to disable it, matching delimiters still were highlighted. There must be a more global command.

Thanks for reading.

:syntax off

or add a syntax off line to your ~/.vimrc file

Thanks a lot, Estabroo. I did it and colour went away. Unfortunately, matching parenthesis are still highlighted. Regards.

Regards.

Sorry I didn't realize you wanted to turn off both, I think the paren thing is :set noshowmatch

estabro: no, it only makes the cursor jump to a matching one but it doesn't matter. I'll manage. I take the opportunity to ask you what may be the reason why, in my system, vi is a mere link to elvis. Kind regards.

wow, sorry I didn't reply sooner. Elvis is probably your system's default editor that supplies a vi compat mode, same thing happens when you install vim, though it'll point to vim instead of elvis.

Which would prob explain why
set syntax off

didn't work. Maybe elvis isn't that compatible..
Hang on... what about

set nohighlight

???