Why is vim drawing underlines on the place of tabs and how to avoid this?

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lyuba picture lyuba · Jan 7, 2011 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

Without any specific regularity my vim displays underlines on the place of tabs (see below).

Sometimes it also happens to the text: I type and it's underlined.

What could be a reason?

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Answer

Randy Morris picture Randy Morris · Jan 7, 2011

This is likely due to the fact that you are editing an html file and the text near the underline is inside of an <a> tag.

To disable this you can add let html_no_rendering=1 to your ~/.vimrc. This setting will, however, also disable bold and italic styling for html files.

If you wish to only disable the underlining, see :help html.vim. There it gives you instructions on what highlight groups you need to redefine without underline.

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