[Gllug] vim nasty colours

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:47:30PM +0000, Stephen Harker wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 22:39 +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> > Something that I ought to know & discovered once, but forgot.
> > 
> > I have to use vi/vim on one machine, and the poxy thing insists on trying to
> > colourise (or should I say colorize ?) shell scripts & the such. The result is
> > that they are completely unreadable (eg dark blue on my black background).
> > How do I switch this perverse misfeature off ? I want it black & white (as God intended).
> > 
> > I have searched through the documentation but can't see anything.
> 
> Well, you could put
> 
> set background=dark
> syntax on
> 
> in to ~/.vimrc to make it colourise properly with a black background.

Hmmmm, works, but makes the file look like a Christmas tree ...

Thanks.

> Or just put "syntax off" instead to switch it all off.

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