vi and perl code highlight

[Luis M]

On 3/1/06, Michael V. De Palatis <mdepalatis at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:43:04PM -0500, Luis M wrote:
> > You can't highlight code in vi. Do you mean vim?
>
> Actually, considering that most distributions these days have the
> command vi symlinked to vim, this is more truthiness than truth.
>

The keyword is "most".

> Sorry, just had to get a Colbert Report plug in there :)

LOL

True, but when you call vim as vi (from symlink) it acts like vi ;-)
(vi mode). Unless you have a vimrc that forces it to go into vim mode
of course.

Same as when you call vim as view, it goes into read-only mode. evim,
easy mode, etc... etc...

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