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

[Andrei Thorp]

Erk,

I'm always a bit iffy on editing system-wide configurations. If the
package is updated, pacman won't update the edited configuration file
(and start spawing .pacnew files), right? I also just don't like
keeping configurations outside of home if at all possible.

Does the current Arch VI respect .virc in your home dir? If so, put
"set nohlsearch" in your .virc file instead. That just turns it off
regardless of whether the system-wide one turns it on or not.

Also, I would like to kindly suggest that you consider using full VIM
instead of VI. It has a lot more features and is often much nicer to
work with.

Sorry if I'm telling you stuff you already know and don't need to hear again :)

Cheers,

-Andrei Thorp

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:58 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> 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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