vim editor on Red Hat 8.0

[boombautz]

Hey Folks,

Can anyone tell me how to turn off the highlighting of the last character of every line when using vi/vim? I've looked at the man page and found all kinds of stuff on syntax highlighting but none of it tells you how to turn this off. I've tried :syntax off, :highlight clear etc etc etc, and nothing works.

Thanks much in advance for any replies.

Kevin

 

[predamarcel]

it is not a synntax highlight problem, :syntax off should work.

could be 2 problems:
#1
someone, maybe you, have made a searh and in this case matched pattern is highlighted.
jus serach something ele, which is not in your file,
something like /dddddddddddd

#2
you have a text file in MS/DOS format (with \r).
you will have a ^M at the end of every line.
All you have to do is to delete \r.
:%s/^M/g
which if fact is:
:%s/CTRL+v[ENTER]/g


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[boombautz]

Thank you very much Predamarcel, suggestion number 1 was right.

I really didn't even think about it because I thought the highlighted search pattern would only be for that instance of vim. My bad. ;-)

Thanks again.

Kevin