to prevent the suspending. Here are some suggestions: – Make do nothing: :map – Make start a shell: :map :shell – Make give an error message:: :map :”suspending disabled For the last example, the double quote is necessary in order to keep the message on the status line. 32.9. When I kill the xterm running Vim, the Vim process continues to run and takes up a lot of CPU (99%) time. Why is this happening? When Vim is built with support for Python interface, you will have this problem. This is a known problem with the python thread library and Vim. To solve this problem, use a Vim binary built without the Python interface. For more information, read :help +python :help python 32.10. How do I get the Vim syntax highlighting to work in a Unix terminal? The easiest and simplest way to get Vim syntax highlighting is to use the GUI version of Vim (GVIM). To get syntax highlighting to work in the console/terminal version of Vim,