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colors in vim vi

This didn't work at all for me; but see Controlling Linux colors in vi (vim)

From: Someone <cec@gryphon.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: How to turn off color in the vi?
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 17:45:43 -0400
References: <bb2tor$2pm@rac2.wam.umd.edu> 

Yi Jin wrote:
> How do one turn off the color in the vi editor? It is
> getting annoying .

Well, the vi editor doesn't have colors.  Its purely a
two-color editor (background, foreground) determined by
the terminal (xterm, etc).

So, if you're getting multiple colors, you're not using
vi.  If you're using vim, the solution is:

        :syn off

If you want to make that effective all the time, put it
into your <.vimrc>.  In fact, you normally have to have

        :syn on

somewhere for syntax highlighting to take effect.  So
an alternative solution is to check your own <.vimrc>
and then system-wide <vimrc> and delete  :syn on .

Regards,
Chip Campbell

-- 
  Charles E. Campbell, Jr
  PGP public key: http://www.erols.com/astronaut/pgp.html

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