on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:52:48PM -0700, Erik Steffl (steffl@bigfoot.com) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > I'm starting to play with C a bit. Discovering some nice things in vim. > > > > I know that there's an 'au' and 'augroup' commands, and that a number of > > vim settings can be configured using these. I'm not sure what current > > settings exist for C program files (matching pattern *.c), or how I > > should use these settings to enable appropriate settings for programming > > support. > > if you install vim-rt the syntax highlighting should work on most > files. > > put: > > syntax on > > into your ~/.vimrc I'd rather not as I'm very used to not having syntax highlighting in shell scripts, and find it distracting. Hence the conditional activation. > > In particular, I'd like to enable syntax highlighting, and maybe get > > some ideas of what I should change to make things a bit more readable > > (some of my screen colors are very hard to read, particularly blue, also > > red, bolding them should help a lot). > > the gvim (opens vim in its own window) has much better colors since it > is not limited to few colors that xterm uses (by default). Prefer working in xterms (well, rxvts). > also, set up your background (light or dark): > > set background=dark This has no effect. I'm already running gold (fg) on black (bg). -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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