On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:26:41PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| I'm starting to play with C a bit. Discovering some nice things in vim.
|
| I know that there's an 'au' and 'augroup' commands, and that a number of
| vim settings can be configured using these. I'm not sure what current
| settings exist for C program files (matching pattern *.c), or how I
| should use these settings to enable appropriate settings for programming
| support.
|
| In particular, I'd like to enable syntax highlighting, and maybe get
| some ideas of what I should change to make things a bit more readable
| (some of my screen colors are very hard to read, particularly blue, also
| red, bolding them should help a lot).
You want something like the following :
augroup C
au!
au FileType c syntax on
" You can also specify stuff like the cool auto-indenting feature
" and a length of the lines, or tab appearance
au FileType c set ai si cin tw=80 fo=croq
au FileType c set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4 et
autocmd FileType c set comments=sr:/*,mb:*,ex:*/
augroup END
For those trying to set vim properties for mail messages only, the
easiest way is with the 'mail' type, as follows :
au! FileType mail set tw=70 fo=tcq
Personally I prefer having a dark background an light foreground.
With gnome-terminal (or other xterms) this is set in it's config, but
for gvim the following line sets it right :
highlight Normal guibg=black guifg=grey90
A side effect of that, as Karsten pointed out, is that much of the
syntax highlighting is dark and doesn't contrast well. The solution
is to put :
set background=dark " makes syntax highlighing lighter
before calling "syntax on". If you put it after calling "syntax on"
it will have no apparent effect. A side effect of this, though, is if
you use a black-on-white terminal you will have a hard time seeing the
really bright colors against the white background. If you use
"set bg=light" followed by "syn on" you can correct that situation.
HTH,
-D
