I prefer to parse code and literature with my mind and eyes, not weird highlighting. So I usually have syntax highlighting off. But having commented out code look different is really helpful. If you would like that kind of setup, drop
" Turn off all syntax highlighting except comments and errors which are actually useful.
set t_Co=256
syntax on
highlight Comment cterm=italic ctermfg=none
highlight Error ctermfg=yellow
highlight Constant ctermfg=none
highlight Identifier ctermfg=none
highlight Statement ctermfg=none
highlight PreProc ctermfg=none
highlight Type ctermfg=none
highlight Special ctermfg=none
highlight Underlined ctermfg=none
into your .vimrc If you use gvim
instead of vim
at the console, you need to replace those ctermfg
's with guifg
's.