[Gllug] vim nasty colours

[Chris Ball]

Alain,

>> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:39:00, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> said:

   > 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).

Use:

   :syn off

from inside vim, or

   set syn=off

in your ~/.vimrc.

- Chris.
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