List, I finally took the time to find out how to change the color vi uses for BASH comments to change them from the dark blue to something I can actually read on the black vi background. It is a simple inclusion in your .vimrc file. I know a lot of you already know this, but I'll post it for the rest of us. In your home directory simply include the following line in your ~/.vimrc: hi Comment term=bold ctermfg=lightblue guifg=lightblue Also, remember that in bash config files the (") double-quote at the beginning of the line is a comment so you can include a little explanation in your .vimrc file as well. If you want to set your comment color and create the .vimrc file all in one step, then just open konsole and type 'cd' to make sure you are in your home directory and then just copy and paste this into konsole and hit return: echo 'hi Comment term=bold ctermfg=lightblue guifg=lightblue' >> .vimrc Another color I looked at and liked for the comment highlight was: hi Comment term=bold ctermfg=darkcyan guifg=darkcyan You can see what colors are available in vi by opening any file and then typing: :runtime syntax/colortest.vim The actual syntax files are in: /usr/share/vim/current/syntax Where current is just a symlink to the current version directory in /usr/share/vim/ for 11.0 it is /usr/share/vim/vim71 on 11.1Beta5 it's /usr/share/vim/vim72 Now I can read my comments again! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. | Rankin Law Firm, PLLC | Countdown for openSuSE 11.1 510 Ochiltree Street | http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 | Telephone: (936) 715-9333 | openSoftware und SystemEntwicklung Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 | http://www.opensuse.org/ www.rankinlawfirm.com | -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org