Saturday, February 11, 2012

Python color syntax highlighting

If you open python file first time on your terminal, it will be plain black color text. To enable the color highlighting follow below steps -

  • open the file - vi myProg.py
  • hit esc (escape) - : syntax on

It will enable the color highlighting, which will be helpful to recognize any syntactical error.

To enable the highlighting permanent follow below steps -

  • open the file - vi ~/.vimrc
  • hit i > it will enable the insert mode
  • type - syntax on
  • hit esc (escape) - :wq
open the python file in vi and check the syntax.



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