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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:00:51 -0600 (MDT)
From:      FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
To:        Edward Gess <edward_gess@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vi features
Message-ID:  <20011018125911.X76770-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
In-Reply-To: <F30WkytIbTQDYztws7r0000a656@hotmail.com>

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vi can't do syntax highlighting. You're thinking of vim, which can. And if
you're from the linux world, most distros even install vim and call it vi
as default. Crazy kids. Anyways, FreeBSD's vi is nvi, not vim not any
other vi. So if you want syntax highlighting, get vim.

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Edward Gess wrote:

>
>    Hello,
>   I know it is possible to get vi running with colors... In a word how to
>   run vi with displaying "C", "HTML", etc., tags???
>
>   Thanks - Ed.
>
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