Re: [arch-general] vi went Orange on me?? Never seen it before -- what is it?

       I'm kind of chuckling at this one. I did a simple substitution in vi on 2009.02 to comment out a few samba shares I wasn't going to use from a smb.conf I copied over. I simply used ':35,72s/^/# /' and then -- Orange appeared over all the comments and leading whitespace in the file. See (38k):

       Any thoughts on this one are welcomed. Thanks.

Hi. You have turned on hlsearch, which is matching every /^/ and showing it to you. You can hide the orange hilight with the :nohl[search] command every time it appears or turn of hlsearch for good in your vimrc file. -- IJ