From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 17:39:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 831A014A31 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:39:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12CBQu-0007x6-00; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 01:03:12 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12CBQu-0002Nx-00; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 01:03:12 +0000 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 01:03:12 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: programmer's editor choice Message-ID: <20000123010311.A8967@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Duke Normandin wrote: > Will vi syntax highlighting work in console mode? If so, would you > consider sending me a copy of that ``config'' file your friend > provided? It sure would make working with my ``php3'' stuff more in > line with what I've been used to on win9x. TIA... yeah, it should. All you should need to do is, $ echo syntax on >> ~/.vimrc to get started. (This assumes you're using vim -- the vi in FreeBSD's base system (nvi) doesn't support syntax highlighting.) -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message