From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 12: 1: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.XtremeDev.com (xtremedev.com [216.241.38.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A4337B401 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xtremedev.com (xtremedev.com [216.241.38.65]) by mail.XtremeDev.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4586970618; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:00:51 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:00:51 -0600 (MDT) From: FreeBSD To: Edward Gess Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi features In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011018125911.X76770-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message