Perl monking (was Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:28:05PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Simon--er, no...it was Bill Campbell--said:
> > >Indeed.  Newer Vim's seem to auto-highlight the matches as your cursor
> > >across them, as well; I think this was whatever ships on SuSE 10.2.
> > 
> > The vim option to have the cursor momentarily jump to the matching
> > delimiter is ``showmatch'', and can be turned off in your $HOME/.vimrc
> > file.  Personally I like it on.
> 
> That'd drive me nuts.  I don't even like my last search results (ie.,
> /sometext) being highlit everywhere automagically -between instantiations-.
> It's handy in the same instance, but it's idiotic to save it between
> instances.  I search on something I know won't be there to get rid of it.

Yeah, me too.  That's moronic.  Where does vim store that stuff,
anyway?

> > You can turn off that obnoxious coloration with ``:syntax off'' or
> > something similar in the $HOME/.vimrc file.  Fairlite has a color setting
> > that he likes as well.
> 
> color pablo

I'll check it.

> Minimalist, but enough to help you out.  The B&W highlighting on non-colour
> terminals works as well.  Anything to show unbalanced syntax is a plus.  My
> once annoyance with syntax highlighting is that it doesn't consider
> ${varname} to be a variable and highlight it appropriately.  If you remove
> the {}s it does, but I -really- prefer an explicit style.

Having looked in the vim install once, I strongly suspect that you
could teach it how, if you wanted to.

Cheers,
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