'vi' is driving me crazy

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
>Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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>>I really like the colorization when printing C code. In vi, I
>>do :hardcopy and get syntax hilighting and (the best part) proper line
>>wrapping for code lines that are too long.
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>I like the ":syntax on" command, which can be added to /etc/vim/vimrc

I find this useful on occassion, but normally leave it off as I
find the colors used to identify things virtually illegible.  It
can be invaluable though to find things like missing quotes in
shell scripts.  I find it less useful in perl where I can use the
``%'' key to find matching braces, parens, etc. and I always use
perl's ``q(...)'' variations for quoted text since it then allows
the same feature -- not to mention not having to backwhack quotes
in the text.

It's a bit better if I have colors set off so it just uses underlines.

Bill
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