(If you get any reason to use Vim without syntax highlighting, let me know in the comment. I did not find any solid reason to disable the syntax highlighting in Vim editor. You can also turn off the syntax highlighting in Vim editor. You can see the text in the syntax highlighted format rather than simple white text. Open any file in vi editors by typing command in the terminal. Now check if the if the alias is set properly. Refresh these changes by running below command. vi /home/csestack/.bashrcĪdd below the line of code at the end of the file. To add an alias for only specific to the csestack, you need to make the changes in the. Suppose I have logged into the user profile named – csestack. Set alias for the specific user on Linux system: Now all the users on Linux can open Vim editor by running command vi in the terminal. To make it work, you have to refresh the changes. Set alias Global (for all the user on Linux system): There are two ways to set alias- globally or only for the specific user in Linux. To add an alias and to open Vim as vi editor, following the steps those are given below in your Linux. You can open Vim editor by running command vi. Open Vim as Vi editor (By setting alias): Many of us are habitat running command Vi in Linux terminal to open any text file or source program. Vim editor is advance over simple Vi editor. If you don’t have an internet connection, you can download vim package from any other connected system. To run above command you need your Linux system connected to the internet. If Vim editor is not installed on your system, you can install it with the following command. Syntax highlight function is present in Vim editor. Vi editor comes preinstalled on all the Linux distribution including Ubuntu, Redhat… But, it does not highlight syntax. Installing Vim on Fedora / CentOS / Red Hat (RHEL): Note: Other Linux distributions come with preinstalled vim editor. To install on those systems, follow the commands given below. There are certain Linux distributions like Fedora / CentOS / Red Hat (RHEL) doe snot provide enhanced Vim editor. So, if you are into programming, move from Vi editor to Vim. Basically, whatever feature we have with VI, it comes with Vim editor as well. If you are learning programming languages, you can refer following tutorial links. Vim supports syntax for many of the popular programming languages like Python, C/++, Java… and many other advanced programming languages. You can find the glimpse of context behind the line of code. And it sparks immediately what kind of data it is. When you look at the highlighting code, it looks more readable. I will try to cover those difference in my upcoming article.) (I will not be discussing other differences as it is not the scope of this article. Vim offers many advanced features over Vi including Syntax highlighting. String message will be shown in Red Colour, code comments in blue, programming keywords with green color… Why should you use Vim over Vi?
The syntactical text will be shown with some specific color.Įx.
It makes your code more colorful by highlighting specific color as per the context and meaning of a particular line of code. Syntax highlighting is one of the primary features to have for any editor. Many of the programmer reports- vi syntax highlighting not working. Vi editor does not support syntax highlighting. One of such a thing is Syntax Highlighting. If you look at the modern editor, Vi lacks on a certain thing.
Vi is a very popular, simple black and white editor in Linux. Enabling/Disabling Syntax Highlighting in Linuxīefore digging into this tutorial, if you are a programmer, you should know the functionality difference between vi and vim editor.How is Vim different from Vi for Programming?.Press enter to keep the current choice, or type selection number: 4 There are 5 choices for the alternative editor (providing /usr/bin/editor). Example sudo update-alternatives -config editor Install vim with sudo apt-get install vimĪfter this invoke sudo update-alternatives -config editor and set the editor to vim. I understand that new users find it easier to use nano, but for all old school guys out there, this post describes how to set the vi or vim as default editor on deb based distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, etc. Using so many years vi or vim (vi improved) it is coming quite annoying that nano is the default editor. Consider some information might not be accurate anymore.
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