How to change the highlight color in vim

[hokky]

Hi guys,

I'm using vim in Redhat, and I have a problem with the hightlight color which is light yellow, and my text is white.

my vim version is :
VIM - Vi IMproved 6.3

Thanks guys,

 

[PHV]

I don't know Linux but what about man vim ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[hokky]

I've tried but no luck

 

[Annihilannic]

When you are in vim drop to the command prompt and type:

[tt]:help syntax-highlighting[/tt]

Annihilannic.

 

[hokky]

Hi Anni,

another more questions :

if I say
:syntax on

do you where the standard syntax.vim is ?

I notice that if I put
:syntax off

the highlight is still working.

Thanks man,

 

[hokky]

Hi Anni,

I have already found where the $VIMRUNTIME is ?

and I have changed it to the other file which is c.vim

but it still doesn't change the highlight color ?

what I did was :
:set syntax=c

Can you help me more pls?

 

[Annihilannic]

Now you know as much about VIM syntax highlighting as I do. It should all be documented in there somewhere...

Annihilannic.

 

[os400]

hth

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[clonny2]

For each type of programming language there is a specific file to define the highlighting and other language nuances. Look in the syntax directory of your vim install.