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Jean
Jean

Reputation: 22675

How do I start vim with syntax highlighting off?

How do I start vim with syntax highlighting off? Vim is taking a long time to highlight syntax for large XML files for me.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2596

Answers (2)

Conner
Conner

Reputation: 31040

You can start vim with

vim -c 'syn off'

Or you can specify that it should turn it off for large XML files by making an ftplugin file. For instance put

if getfsize(expand('%')) > 400000
    syntax off
endif

in a file named ~/.vim/ftplugin/xml.vim

Upvotes: 18

Hauleth
Hauleth

Reputation: 23556

You need to disable syntax highlighting. You can do that (and few additional options that can be useful in such situation) by following this instruction on Vi SE.

Upvotes: 0

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