[ale] vi (vim) question

[Pete Hardie]

Jeff Layton wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:20:05AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
>> > Good morning!
>> >
>> >   I'm working on a remote machine that has RH 7.3 installed
>> > on it. When I fire up vi (it's vim), everything is color-coded.
>> > How do I turn that off?
>>
>> Usulay vi will not color code.  vim will.
>>
> 
> Yep, vi is aliased to vim.
> 
>> Try the command \vi
>>
> 
> No joy. But, I did find that the commond
> 
> :syntax off
> 
> did the trick. Do you know how to make this the
> default so I don't have to type the command every
> time I crank up vi (uhm, vim).

create a .vimrc and put the syntax off command in there.

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