On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:56:05AM +0100, Maciek R. wrote:
>
> 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.
You are running vim not vi.
$ which vi
alias vi='vim'
/usr/bin/vim
See the alias in /etc/profile.d/vim.sh
You can escape the alias with a back slash
\vi your-file
As a 'programmers' editor vim can be clever about context, key words
and other things that some programmers like (heck need and love)..
See ":set all"
in /etc/vimrc this little bit.... is doing it.
" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
syntax on
set hlsearch
endif
Note that you can unset either of these in your own ~/.vimrc
some may choose to pass config flags in the environment.
No need to do this system wide.
SEE ALSO
vimtutor(1)
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