vim syntax highlight F9

Paulo Cavalcanti promac at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 10:20:26 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Armin <feng.shaun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 31 July 2008 17:31:23 Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 16:20 -0300, Armin wrote:
> > > On Thursday 31 July 2008 06:16:17 Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > How to enable syntax highlighting in vim? I tried to put "syntax
> on" on
> > > > /etc/vimrc and on my "~/.vimrc" and does not work.  I have the
> > >
> > > following
> > >
> > > > vim packages installed:
> > > > [root at newt set_new_machine]# yum list installed vim*
> > > > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> > > > Installed Packages
> > > > vim-common.i386                          2:7.1.291-1.fc9
> > > > installed
> > > > vim-enhanced.i386                        2:7.1.291-1.fc9
> > > > installed
> > > > vim-minimal.i386                         2:7.1.291-1.fc9
> > > > installed
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know how to solve this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Marcelo
> > >
> > > I have this in my ~/.vimrc
> > >
> > > :syn on  (note the semicolon)
> >
> > What semicolon? I had to say that. Do you mean colon?
> >
> > > and it should work, also if you want the gui version of vim, do
> > >
> > > $ yum install  gvim
> > >
> > > --
> > > Armin
> >
> > --
> >
>

The problem is for serching/replacing, for instance:

:%s/something/anotherthing/gc

In the past, using /bin/vi, the cursor could be seen
on the current instance to be replaced.

Now, the cursor just disappears. It works with vim,
but it uses some nasty colors in this case. The advantage
of /bin/vi was that just a white cursor was on the word
to be replaced, and the user could just type 'y' or 'n'.

The funny thing is that for pure searches the cursor is there,
and typing 'n', makes it go to the next instance.

The behavior changed on F8. It used to work on F6, though.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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