About vi editor

chandan_shetty · 03-01-2008, 11:46 PM

The vi editor is not colour full it displays text in black colour.......
for example
int a,b;
"int" is in black colour. I want vi editor to be colourfull so it is easy for me to debug the programs...so please help me to solve this problem.

Tinkster · 03-01-2008, 11:51 PM

Use vim, turn syntax highlighting on.

Code:

:syntax on

or put the following into your ~/.vimrc

Code:

if &t_Co > 1
syntax enable
endif

Cheers,
Tink

jschiwal · 03-01-2008, 11:53 PM

The quickest solution is to copy /usr/share/vim/vim71/vimrc_example.vim to ~/.vimrc. This will give you syntax highlighting for a number of languages including C, Python, bash and others. When you load in a file a vim script will determine the type of file and the syntax highlighting to use.

Your version of vim might vary. "locate vimrc_" should find the file quickly.

chandan_shetty · 03-03-2008, 01:25 PM

thnks its working.......