vim suddenly changed colors???

spyghost · 08-27-2003, 04:42 AM

hi,

i am doing a script in vim (from the terminal, NOT from the GUI) and all of a sudden (i don't know what i did or what happened), one keyword suddenly changed its background color to the point that i cannot read it anymore. how do i revert it back to its original color?

spyghost · 08-27-2003, 07:34 AM

wait, i know now why it changed... i pressed <shift> + #

the problem now is, how am i going to get it back to normal?

Cooner · 08-27-2003, 07:45 AM

try :syntax off

spyghost · 08-27-2003, 08:49 AM

wait, i need syntax coloring for scripts and other source files

Cooner · 08-27-2003, 09:37 AM

use :help v_u
It will show you how to set up custom color configurations to colors you can see

0x0001 · 08-27-2003, 10:13 AM

Is it possible that you only pressed #. In that case you searche for the word under the cursor. With certain color scheme + colordepth combinations the hilight of the search would just make it 'disapear'.

Try searching for something completely different (e.g.: /asdf) if you keyword reapears all is well, you just need to adjust the highlighting of search results or turn them of. Try :help highlight, :highlight and :help hlsearch.