On Wed, December 29, 2004 9:07 pm, Nifty Hat Mitch said: > 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 Here's my guess... somehow you pressed the number 8 key and holding shift, while your cursor was sitting on the word "echo". This is the shortcut for search-for-word. Now every time you load vi it is showing you your previous "search". You can simply press / and then type a bunch of random keys as a search string. Press ENTER and the word echo will no longer be highlighted every time you start vi. Cheers, Sean
