[opensuse] vi - change BASH comment color to something readable

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!

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