From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 20:54:05 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36276117 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 20:54:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from p3plsmtpa09-03.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa09-03.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [173.201.193.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082967D1 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 20:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ethic.thought.org ([209.180.213.209]) by p3plsmtpa09-03.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with id p8sS1o0024XeM01018sS7k; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:52:27 -0700 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:52:26 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: vim and cursor-over-"chars" question Message-ID: <20140909205225.GA10859@ethic.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:54:05 -0000 ===== Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 28 years of service to the Unix community. I should have asked this many months ago, but it's time. --before I go Completely off the deep end.-- how do I change the color of the cursor from green of blue to something lighter --can I have vim do it in orange? the *original* vi showed matching parens and braces only. Anybody know what to tweak in ~/.vimrc, or am I stuck? tia, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-eight years of service to the Unix community.