Thus spake Emma Jane Hogbin: > Sometimes when I'm searching for strings in Vim the syntax highlighting > gets turned off. I'm unable to reset it unless I (1) quit the program; (2) > scroll to the top of the page and then scroll back down. > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? I'm using 6.1.474. It tends to > only happen with longer files. My current file is 1250Lines and is > technically [dos] format (although it's just a PHP file). > > Any solutions would be much appreciated. The "switch to Emacs" type of > solution will be silently ignored. ;) I've seen syntax highlighting get messed up and just sort of "turn off", with the same characteristics, but only with much older vim versions (5.x days). I routinely edit C files much longer than 1250 lines, and haven't seen it with the vim in unstable. (The only place I've seen it is on a Redhat 6.2 machine). It could possibly be a bug in the PHP syntax highlighting... Next time it happens, try: :syntax off :syntax on If it happens regularly, you might even want to bind a key combination to those. (Or file a bug report) -- Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net> Individuality is the aim of political liberty. - James Fenimore Cooper
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