<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> if your last search was for echo (even i a previous session) this will be highlighted. edit the .vimrc file in your home directory and add the following line to completely turn off the highlight behavior for searching: set nohlsearch Sean wrote: <blockquote cite="mid40830.10.10.10.28.1104387824.squirrel@linux1" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, December 29, 2004 9:07 pm, Nifty Hat Mitch said: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:56:05AM +0100, Maciek R. wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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 </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>