Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2747 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bryen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 21:01 -0700, joe wrote:
> > Bryen wrote:
> > > How can I turn off colors in vi (actually vim) permanently?
> > rpm -e vim-data
> Okay, I gotta ask.  Cristian's solution earlier created an empty .vimrc
> file with "syntax off" in it and it works perfectly.  Best of all, it is
> a non-destructive solution.

Close.
Cristan's solution opened a .vimrc file for appending
(creating the file if it doesn't exist) and then
APPENDED "syntax off" to the end of .vimrc.

There's a difference (IMPORTANT!) between > and >>

> Your solution (which may also work) is to remove a package.  Just what
> functionality would I have lost if I had gone your route?

Yes, Cristan's solution is superior to uninstalling
packages which someone else on a system might want
to use (it's not a good idea to assume that all
participants are only working on Linux machines
that nobody else uses).



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