Re: highlighting in Vi

[Tyler Nally <tnally iquest net>]

Tyler Nally wrote:

> The only one of these that deal with searching is "incsearch".  To turn
> any command off, all you have to do is prepend a "no" before the attribute
> and it'll be turned off.  For this one, it'd be:
> 
>:noincsearch

Oooooops!  Almost right.  It shouldda been:

     :set noincsearch

Which I did get get it right once below when I wrote this:

> Besides the paragraph of information, we see there are aliases to the 
> setting "incsearch" being "is" and "noincsearch" is "nois".  So, if you
> wanted to turn this attribute/setting off, you could also enter:

>:set nois

All of these commands are changed with the "set" command while in vi/vim 
or likewise the "set" command as placed in the $HOME/.exrc or $HOME/.vimrc
files.

Whew!

Thought I was loosing it for a second there ;-)

Tyler
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