On 30 May 2003, Ted Gould wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 21:26, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On 30 May 2003, Ted Gould wrote: > > > :se bg=dark > > > > Thanks for the info. Works fine but is there a way to put this in > > an alias? > > I'm guessing that you want VIM to do this all the time. The list of > commands that VIM executes on start-up is in ~/.vimrc. So you basically > would just have one line in your .vimrc for every command you would > execute. Here is my .vimrc: Thanks. The problem was that .vimrc wasn't in my $HOME directory. I had never copied it over. -- Bob Holtzman "All work and no play makes jack .......and lots of it."