vi fstab RHEL3

[Brian Shepard]

I just started using RHEL3 and have noticed that vi uses color bits. My concern is when I vi my fstab, my NFS mount entries are reverse video red. I am guessing that vi is telling me that these fstab entries are not formatted correctly. What's interesting is that I have absolutely no problems mounting these filesystems. No errors, no problems. Why is vi displaying these entries in reverse video red?

-Brian

[K.C. Chan]

This is ok, I think vi is an alias to vim; at least on my linux box. You can call vi directly or unalias the alias. Another way is use view, then force a write if you want to save changes.

[Ivan Ferreira]

I think that there should be no errors on the fstab, maybe vi is trying to use syntax checking, usefull in scripts. If you want to disable that, use

:syntax off

If you don't like it configure the command in the $HOME/.vimrc file.

[Brian Shepard]

Thanks, I appreciate the reassurance.
I always knew the entries were correct, but RHEL3's vi colors freaked me out. Thanks again, much appreciated!

[Mike Stroyan]

The syntax highlighting information for fstab is in /usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/fstab.vim.
It is likely that your NFS lines are valid but poorly described by that syntax file.
I don't see any substantial change to that file in RHEL4 or other vim distributions. I see reverse video red on the hostname parts of NFS lines on my systems.