Download vimrc syntax highlighting

Syntax highlighting is on for vim editor by default. The content of login. After opening login. The file will look like the following image if syntax highlighting is on. You have to create or edit. Run the following command to open. For disabling the feature, just re-open. Different vim files of color scheme exist after installing vim package. Run the following command to show the list of vim color scheme files.

The following output shows that the installed vim package contains 18 color scheme that can be applied in the vim editor. The use of some color schemes is shown in the next part of this tutorial. Suppose, the user wants to change the color scheme for a html file named hello. The looks of the editor will be changed like the following image after applying the new color scheme.

But this change is temporary and the color effect will be removed after closing the editor. If you want to set a particular color scheme and background for the editor permanently then open. Here, evening color scheme will be set for syntax highlighting and the background color is set to dark.

I come across three of them the most often. Colors are not showing up, only black-and-white terminal highlighting. This is most often caused because Vim cannot determine that the terminal has color capabilities. Colors are showing up, but they're not mine. This tends to happen when you take someone else's.

Chances are, moving all of your color definition statements to the end of the file will fix it. If not, check for strange lines of code in the. The colors get messed up when I scroll. Vim uses various heuristics to save time when determining the highlighting, and sometimes they cause problems. Look up :h syn-sync for a more detailed explanation.

In Vim 6. At this point, if you feel comfortable using Vim and you've played around with its settings and found something you like, congratulations, you're a real Vim user! Of course, there's much more to this editor than I can provide in this tutorial--they wrote an entire book on the program--but hopefully you now have a basis for exploring further and learning more.

Enjoy learning it; it's a skill that you won't regret having learned. Here are some more common setting that enhance the editing experience. Each line contains a comment above it explaining what it does. Bash completion is a great feature which saves keystrokes by auto completing what you type. Vim has a similar feature called wildmenu. Add the following lines to enable the wildmenu feature.

You will see a list of files matching the file you are searching for. You can also enable auto completion to Vim. Vim will allow you to fold long files to hide sections of text. Save the. Now, once you move your cursor on a fold you can press:. You can add plugins to Vim to add extra functionality. Most people use a plugin manager to make plugin installation easy.

There are a variety of plugin managers we can use. I will show you how to install and use the vim-plug plugin manager.

The plugins we install will be added between the two function calls. In the mapping section we will add shortcuts to making typing longer commands easier. This will save you key strokes and lots of time, especially for long commands. A common mapping example is to map 'jj' to the escape key. You will be pressing the escape key a lot. The escape key is in the far corner of the keyboard.

The letter 'j' is in the middle of the keyboard so it is easier to press 'jj' instead of reaching for the escape key. The leader key, in conjunction with another key, will allow you to create new shortcuts.

The backslash key is the default leader key but some people change it to a comma ",".