Colours in VIM
 

Hi lads,

is it possible to make coloured text in VIM?
For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black
color." The first should be in red.


Thank you,
Andrius


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Colours in VIM
 

Pantor wrote:

Hi lads,

is it possible to make coloured text in VIM?
For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black
color." The first should be in red.


For colors and fancy formatting, something like openoffice would be more
suited. VIM is a text editor. You can ask it to display text colored
according to some predefined syntax, but not arbitrarily.


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On 02/04/08 11:13, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Pantor wrote:
>> Hi lads,
>>
>> is it possible to make coloured text in VIM?
>> For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black
>> color." The first should be in red.
>
> For colors and fancy formatting, something like openoffice would be more
> suited. VIM is a text editor. You can ask it to display text colored
> according to some predefined syntax, but not arbitrarily.

AbiWord is much lighter & smaller than OOo.

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Ron Johnson wrote:

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On 02/04/08 11:13, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

Pantor wrote:

Hi lads,

is it possible to make coloured text in VIM?
For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black
color." The first should be in red.

For colors and fancy formatting, something like openoffice would be more
suited. VIM is a text editor. You can ask it to display text colored
according to some predefined syntax, but not arbitrarily.


AbiWord is much lighter & smaller than OOo.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals
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Exim4 is ready, Fetchmail almost working, hope that Procmail will do job
in days, then Mutt in couple weeks. And of course always vim.


Andrius


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Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

Pantor wrote:

Hi lads,

is it possible to make coloured text in VIM?
For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black
color." The first should be in red.


For colors and fancy formatting, something like openoffice would be more
suited. VIM is a text editor. You can ask it to display text colored
according to some predefined syntax, but not arbitrarily.



Should be possibility to put colors on ascii charset.


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Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

Pantor wrote:

Hi lads,

is it possible to make coloured text in VIM?
For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black
color." The first should be in red.


For colors and fancy formatting, something like openoffice would be more
suited. VIM is a text editor. You can ask it to display text colored
according to some predefined syntax, but not arbitrarily.




Actually, you can pretty much to anything you want, so I think
"arbitrary" is an accurate description. You'll want to read
the help pages within vim for details, but if you want to have
the word "red" appear in red while the word "blue" appears
in blue, one way to do it is to put the following in
~/.vim/syntax/foo.vim:

syn match red "red"
syn match blue "blue"
hi red ctermfg=red
hi blue ctermfg=blue

Now, either in your .vimrc or by hand, execute (from within vim):
set syntax=foo

(The ctermfg refers to the console, (cterm == color term). If
you are running gvim, you'll probably want to replace ctermfg with
guifg)



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