Re: Expected "syntax disable" to work, to match "syntax enable"

On 2015-10-14, Matt Ackeret wrote:
> Short version: On a shared account (for a buildbot setup), someone has a crazy
> (imho) .vimrc setup with syntax coloring, etc. I wanted to turn off the coloring
> and not just move the file out of the way.
>
> Since I saw "syntax enable" in the .vimrc, I expect(ed) "syntax disable" to
> work.. But it doesn't.
>
> Looking through the online help, I found "syntax off".
>
> I wish ":syntax disable" would work too, and there are probably other enable/off
> things where having disable work too would be good..
>
> So I guess this is an enhancement request for "disable" to work too, since it
> is IMHO the logical thing to try. (Maybe "on" should work for "enable" too..)

There is a ":syntax on" command as well as ":syntax enable", but
they do slightly different things. See

:help usr_06
:help :syntax-on
:help syntax-loading

HTH,
Gary

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