VI and HTML

[SendTrash]

guys.... in vi how do you view html source? right now when I open an html file, it is formatted and not the html tags

 

[SendTrash]

any clue on the command?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Since vi is almost as far from graphical as you can get Im not sure I understand. Does it have a lynx like view? Are you sure it is vi and not vim or another clone?

 

[fow99]

What are you talking about? Sure vi will show you the source. It is a text editor!
What have you done to the lovely program?

 

[gopunk]

yea, what they said. are you sure you're using vi?

 

[SendTrash]

the answer is ctrl +w, and then d

 

[SendTrash]

well, when I view an html doc it has the bolded text for links, and looks like a formated page

 

[stndn]

i think what you mean is syntax highlighting?
you can still see the html tags, etc, and they are bolded, underline, etc, depending on the source code?

try :set syntax=off to turn off syntax highlighting, if that is the case.
otherwise, a screenshot would help 🙂

ctrl-w + d doesn't work for me ... it says "no identifier under cursor" for me ... =(
if i put my cursor under < HTML > , it will say "couldn't find definition" ... =(

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