Re: vi -- Turn off Line Number Colors and Screen Buffering
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Cameron Hutchison <lists@xdna.net> wrote:
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
>
>>On 2008-11-04 06:28 +0100, Matt Miller wrote:
>
>>>> > Also, I don't want the editor to do whatever special screen buffer
>>>> > swapping, or whatever it is, that prevents me from scrolling back in
>>>> > my terminal history when the editor is open, and then clears away
>>>> > the screen and redisplays what was there before after the editor is
>>>> > closed.
>>>
>>> That's still an annoyance. This whole take-over-the-screen-because-that-
>>> must-be-what-you-really-want thing has got be turn-offable.
>
>>This is a feature of your terminal (and ncurses). Please consult your
>>terminal's manual how to turn the alternate screen off. In xterm, you
>>need to set the `titeInhibit' resource to true.
>
> Alternatively, set TERM=vt100 as that terminal does not have the escape
> codes defined for this feature.
>
>
This behaviour can be specified in vim though, by adding the following to
~/.vimrc:
set t_ti= t_te= "Don't use alternate screen
hi LineNr ctermfg=lightgray "Or whatever colour you want the line numbers to be
(Check the colour list at
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#cterm-colors)
-Nye
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