[PLUG] stupid vi question

Matt Alexander m at pdxlug.org
Sat Jan 31 21:58:02 UTC 2004


On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Brian Quade wrote:

> I am no vi expert or anything but I use it because it is convenient.  
> (Actually I use vim.)  But if I accidentally hit the wrong key (the # 
> key I think), then whatever word the cursor is on turns brown in every 
> document I ever open with vi from that point onward.  I tried looking in 
> .viminfo and I did remove all of the search history lines in there but 
> it didn't work.  Does anyone know how I can turn this feature off 
> forever or get rid of it or something so that I don't get brown text all 
> over the screen?

I don't know off-hand how to permanentaly disable it, but you could always
just search for something else that doesn't exist:

/lkjsflkjsdf







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