VI highlighting 'echo'

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Maciek R. wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have no idea how I activated this ... but while writing some easy
> shell scripts the VI editor highlights the word 'echo' so the background
> is orange. How can I remove this option? I already used man vi and
> the :help command in VI but found nothing.

One of the many annoying "features" of vim.  By default it will 
highlight whatever you searched for in the text (obviously, you searched 
for "echo" sometime in the past).  And than it will save that on the 
disk, and whatever file you edit after that, it will highlight the last 
searched phrase.  Couple of people responded how to disable that... 
What I usually do is either not installing vim, or removing vim.sh and 
vim.csh from /etc/profile.d directory (basically it disables aliasing of 
vi to vim, if I want vim, I can always type vim, if I want plain vi, I 
just type vi).

-- 
Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca>    Pollard Banknote Limited
Systems Administrator                           1499 Buffalo Place
Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276                     Winnipeg, MB  R3T 1L7