Sunday, December 25, 2011

Re: why is Vim coloring text in txt files?

Wolfram Volpi wrote:

> Sometimes Vim displays my .txt files in various colors.
>
> The coloring of the text depends on the position of "#" (line 4 in the
> examples below).  You can see the colors in the attached png file.
>
> Is that normal behavior for Vim?  If not, where could this colors be
> coming from?
>
> I don't think the colors are coming from my vimrc file, but I attached
> it in case you want to take a look.
>
> I just want black text and maybe colors for Markdown headings.
>
> Thank you,
> wolfv
> --
>
> temp2.txt:
> After reopening file in Vim,
> if first line starting with hash (#) starts after column 1
> then
>  #hash is black
>  'single quote is black'
>  "double quote is black"
>
> temp3.txt:
> After reopening file in Vim,
> if first line starting with hash (#) starts in column 1
> then
> #hash is blue
>  'single quote is pink'
>  "double quote is pink"

I don't see those colors.

What does the following Ex command say when you
edit a *.txt file with the unexpected colors?

:verbose set filetype?

If the filetype is set somewhere, it should indicate where
it comes from. It might come from one of your installed plugins.

Regards
-- Dominique

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