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

[David C. Rankin]

János Illés wrote:
>>        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.
> 


Thanks Aaron and Janos:

	I found it in /etc/virc, I made the change as follows and all is well:

" 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


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