RE: v == vim - how do I turn off colors?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht attbi com>]

Karl,
   This suggestion actually worked amazingly well. Thanks. I just switched
to the block on light yellow and everything is now nicely readable.

   Thanks for helping me keep it simple.

Cheers,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Karl Pearson
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 2:24 PM
To: Redhat Install
Subject: RE: v == vim - how do I turn off colors?


You might just try to change the default colors for gnome-terminal. I
always do that first when I install, or start a new user, so didn't
think of that. A background of white is sometimes too bright for the
yellows, so try gray.

Karl

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 14:31, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Karl,
>    Thanks. Maybe I'm approaching this wrong. I'd like the color, but
> currently I can't read much in a vi window.
>
>    I did a default workstation install of RH 7.3 with the development
tools
> added in. What I get in Gnome is a button on the bottom to launch
> gnome-terminal, which gives me a black background. Since this syntax stuff
> makes lots of things dark blue, on a black background it's basically not
> readable.
>
>    RH7.3 also doesn't really seem to load vi, but aliases vi to vim, which
> is why I'm asking these questions.
>
>    So, if all I want to do is edit my .bashrc (as I'm not a programmer)
what
> would be the best thing for me to do? Install vi? Change the colors being
> chosen for me? Turn off colors? Change the default background color?
>
>    I'm sort of lost as to how to make this more usable. I just want to
feel
> comfortable changing a little bit of config. I'm not going to join a
source
> forge programming group.
>
>    And, all this seems much more difficult than the last full installation
I
> did, which was RH 7.0. I didn't have this color problem there as I
> remember...
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> karlp ourldsfamily com
> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:09 AM
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> Subject: Re: v == vim - how do I turn off colors?
>
>
> : syntax off
>
> should disable the colors, which represent syntax highlighting. I find it
> extremely useful, especially in bash script, Perl and HTML files. I'm not
> sure where you go to change the colors, but I suspect it is in the syntax
> directory of the vim installation:
>
>        /usr/share/vim/vim61/syntax/syntax.vim
>                       System wide syntax initializations.
>
>        /usr/share/vim/vim61/syntax/*.vim
>                       Syntax files for various languages.
>
> change vim61 with vim57 or whatever version of vim you are using.
>
> --
> Karl L. Pearson
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> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> >Apparently the default RH installation installs vim and an alias for vi.
> >
> >Where do I turn off or change the colors that have been chosen for me?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Mark
> >
> >
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