Re: blinking is evil
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:38:35AM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> After updating to Fedora 9, I used vi on an old mailbox.
> Most of the header lines were blinking at me.
> What's going on?
> How do I make it stop?
> If I find the inventor of blinking text,
> how slowly should I kill him?
>
You have to go back to before the invention of the VT-100 terminal
to discover the inventor of blinking text.
Is he still dead?
I think the issue is the alias for vi
$ alias vi
alias vi='vim'
Yup.
I don't have a real vi.
$ su -
# alias vi
-bash: alias: vi: not found
# which vi
/bin/vi
Vim is a smarter version of vi and has syntax driven
display atributes. It will color text as per the terminfo
file and your preferences.
Since I do not see blinking look at the terminal window you
have and tell us which one you are using i.e. help --> about
It may be as simple as using "Terminal" in contrast to "Gnome
Terminal"...
Or better yet use gvim and click Syntax-->Off; in vim you should be
able to ":syn off" as well.
Thanks much.
I'm using xterm for a command line and whatever
gvim gives me when it starts from konqueror.
.../x/xterm is a compiled terminfo file.
I should have though of syntax.
Blinking text does not do good things to my brain.
Most of the time syntax is good thing,
so I don't want to turn it off generally.
Just knowing :syn off is sufficient, though not excellent.
Turning off blinking generally would be a good thing.
If I went through all the vim syntax files and removed all
the blinks and use_blinks, would that do the trick for gvim?
See my first google hit:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/disable-syntax-highlighting-in-vim/
and also the obvious vim home site stuff:
http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/syntax.html
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