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Question for programmers who use Vi(m)

Do any of you work remotely on machines, possibly using putty on windows? I do all the time, and I find when I'm programming, I dont like one of the colors in Vi(m). Its the dark/bright blue color, usually used for comments.

I mainly SSH into a linux server or workstation from a windows workstation at school (through putty). I have an account that i use, and I'd like to automatically change that color in Vim when I log in. I cant read comments at all in code, I swear I have to squint to read them. I need my comments! :p

I know exactly what your going through:) It is hard to read that dark blue.

I have this dealing with syntax highlighting in my .vimrc file:

Code:

" some colors:  "white on black"

hi normal  ctermfg=white  ctermbg=black guifg=white  guibg=black

hi COMMENT ctermfg=cyan ctermbg=black

" Syntax Hilighting

hmm... I dont have my own .vimrc file in my /home/user directory, I assume theres like a global vimrc file on the server? If I write my own and stick it in my /home directory, will it override settings from the global one?

I knew I wasn't alone with this problem :cool:

There is usually a global file in /etc. Creating your own will override that file.

I personally don't use a lot of settings, my entire file looks like this:

Code:

set cindent

set shiftwidth=8

set tabstop=8

set expandtab

set ruler

syntax on

" some colors:  "white on black"

hi normal  ctermfg=white  ctermbg=black guifg=white  guibg=black

hi nontext  ctermfg=blue  ctermbg=black guifg=blue  guibg=black

hi COMMENT ctermfg=cyan ctermbg=black

" Syntax Hilighting

set nowrap



" enables real tabs for Makefiles only

augroup Makefile

au!

au BufReadPre Makefile set noexpandtab

augroup END



" vim -b : edit binary using xxd-format!

augroup Binary

au!

au BufReadPre  *.bin let &bin=1

au BufReadPost *.bin if &bin | %!xxd

au BufReadPost *.bin set ft=xxd | endif

au BufWritePre *.bin if &bin | %!xxd -r

au BufWritePre *.bin endif

au BufWritePost *.bin if &bin | %!xxd

au BufWritePost *.bin set nomod | endif

augroup END

If you are going to do any tab expansion you must make sure you turn it off for Makefiles or make will puke.