Michael D. Berger wrote: > I have two FC4 boxes with identical /etc/vimrc . > Using vim, on boxA, if for example, I use the slash > to search for xxx, then all visible xxx are > highlighted. On boxB, there is no highlight > except for the cursor. I note that this is the > case when the boxes are used directly or accessed > via ssh using Putty from a win2k box. In the past, > boxB worked like boxA. Any suggestions? This is set via the hlsearch option. :set hlsearch will turn it on. :set nohlsearch will turn it off. Does this apply for all users? If not, then look in ~/.vim* : particularly the settings toward the top of ~/.viminfo. Otherwise you may want to consider this fragment of /etc/vimrc: " 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 Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | It was amazing how human traits and affairs could so @westexe.demon.co.uk | reliably and continuously be guided by a succession of | big white balls of plasma billions of miles away, most | of whom have never even heard of humanity. | -- "The Last Continent", Terry Pratchett