[olug] VIM Question

CM Miller cmmiller1973 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 28 00:29:01 UTC 2003


Thanks Chris and Chris, that explains it. 

Now I just have to upgrade this Debian kernel past 2.2
and then I can fool with this. 

-Chris 


--- mØntar3 <m0ntar3 at cox.net> wrote:
>  "syntax highlighting" maybe, try ":syn on" in vim
> (or .vimrc), it's mo' 
> purty in "gvim" than "vim." both get their
> "highlighting syntax syntax" 
> from the extension on the file you're working on...
> 
> Christopher Cashell wrote:
> 
> >At Sun, 26 Jan 03, Unidentified Flying Banana CM
> Miller, said:
> >  
> >
> >>When I want to check to see if the brackets on
> code
> >>are complete, I use Shift + %.  When using OLUG
> shell,
> >>it is automatically done for me.  
> >>
> >>How is this done, under .exrc?  I imagine this is
> a
> >>global variable, correct?  Like the aliases set up
> for
> >>the accounts? 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I'm not completely positive this is what you're
> talking about, and
> >looking for, but I think you want the option
> "showmatch".  This will
> >cause it to flash to the opening
> brace/bracket/paren when you type the
> >closing one, showing you where it's "matching"
> brace is.
> >
> >You can turn it on in the editor by typing ":set
> showmatch", or you can
> >add "set showmatch" to your .vimrc or your .exrc so
> it will always be
> >enabled.
> >
> >--
> >| Christopher
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