Introduction

vi and vim are popular, widely-used text editors.

Customization

Customize your vim environment by creating a ~/.vimrc file.

Disable Vim Matching Parentheses Highlighting

This feature annoys me, so I'm documenting the command to disable it in case it annoys you, too. Add this instruction to your ~/.vimrc:

let g:loaded_matchparen=1

Enable Vim Color Syntax Highlighting

1. Assign the value xterm-color to your TERM environment variable, either manually at the command line or automatically within your ~/.cshrc file.

   tcsh shell:
   
   % set term=xterm-color
   

2. Add these instructions to your .vimrc file:

   syntax enable
   colorscheme darkblue
   

This example randomly uses the darkblue colorscheme. Browse the installed system vim colorschemes until you find one that you like. They're located in:

/usr/share/vim/vim[NN]/colors/

References

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_text_editor
3. http://vim.sourceforge.net/
4. http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/