Hey everyone.
I just loaded FC4, and I noticed that when I open a file, such as /etc/inittab, it doesn't show it in color. It's just plain old gray on black.

I have some Linux experience, but never had to deal with configuring vi.

My FC3 machine has vi with colors, and it was like that ever since it was installed.

Any ideas?

Thanks

-RoNNY

Edit /etc/vimrc.

Near the top of the file, look for this:

"enable syntax highlighting
syntax on
:colorscheme peachpuff (on my system)

Make certain that the syntax line is not commented out, and syntax highlighting is turned on.
For colorschemes, on SuSE, they're in two locations:
/opt/kde/share/vim/vim61/colors/peachpuff.vim and
/usr/share/vim/vim61/colors/peachpuff.vim

There should be something similar on your system.

Thanks.
This is what I have:

" 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

Now, I am in runlevel 3, so I *think* the above disables it...
I tried adding a " before the "if" and "endif", and it changed nothing.
Do I need to do anything to make changes in the vimrc active?

Thanks for your reply.

-RoNNY

While I'm at it, here's the entire file:

if v:lang =~ "utf8$" || v:lang =~ "UTF-8$"
set fileencodings=utf-8,latin1
endif

set nocompatible " Use Vim defaults (much better!)
set bs=2 " allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
"set ai " always set autoindenting on
"set backup " keep a backup file
set viminfo='20,\"50 " read/write a .viminfo file, don't store more
" than 50 lines of registers
set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history
set ruler " show the cursor position all the time

" Only do this part when compiled with support for autocommands
if has("autocmd")
" In text files, always limit the width of text to 78 characters
autocmd BufRead *.txt set tw=78
" When editing a file, always jump to the last cursor position
autocmd BufReadPost *
\ if line("'\"") > 0 && line ("'\"") <= line("$") |
\ exe "normal! g'\"" |
\ endif
endif

if has("cscope")
set csprg=/usr/bin/cscope
set csto=0
set cst
set nocsverb
" add any database in current directory
if filereadable("cscope.out")
cs add cscope.out
" else add database pointed to by environment
elseif $CSCOPE_DB != ""
cs add $CSCOPE_DB
endif
set csverb
endif

" 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

if &term=="xterm"
set t_Co=8
set t_Sb=^[[4%dm
set t_Sf=^[[3%dm
endif

Try:

export TERM=xterm-color vim

or

TERM=xterm-color vim

Put it in your ~/.bashrc file if it works.

Thanks, but it didn't work.

-RoNNY

You may not have vi aliased to vim.
The original vi does not have colours, it's a straight monochrome editor.
however a lot of systems alias vi => vim, which is vi_improved, which does colours and a lot more.
I have this cmd at the bottom of my .bash_profile file:

# Aliases
alias vi="vim"

export vi

Try that

Thank you all.
The developers of FC4 changed the script for vi, under /etc/profile.d/ named vimrc.sh.

There are two lines that were added (lines 3 and 4). If you comment these out, you get vi aliased to vim. Go figure. Actually, I think that commenting only #4 will do the trick as well.

I personally think that there's an error in the script.
It runs the id command with the -u option, which generates a zero as a reply if you're root (root's uid is 0). It compares that number to 100, and if it's equal or less, it runs the "return" command, i.e. gets out of the script.


Very weird.


-RoNNY

Can you exactly point out which two lines are to be commented out and of which file?
thanks