Shell Setting Notes

Turn on or off color syntax highlighting in vi or vim To turn on syntax highlighting in vi or vim, enter command below

:syntax on

To turn of color syntax highlighing , enter command below in vi or vum

:syntax off

You can edit ~/.vimrc file and add command syntax on to it so that next you will start vim with color syntax highlighting option

$ cd
$ vi .vimrc

Append the following line:

syntax on