Asterisks enclosing text disappear when cursor leaves the line

[Eric Weir]

I have been using pairs of asterisks enclosing text to indicate emphasis. I just noticed that when I move the cursor from the line in which asterisks are used in this way they disappear.

Not a serious problem, but I don't recall this happening before---I may just not have noticed---and I would prefer that the asterisks display. 

Why does it happen? Can i prevent it.

Thanks,

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Eric Weir

Decatur, GA

eew...@bellsouth.net

"A man should be in the world as though he were not in it 

so that it will be no worse because of his life." 

- Wendell Berry 

[Ben Fritz]

On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 4:49:51 PM UTC-5, Eric Weir wrote:
> I have been using pairs of asterisks enclosing text to indicate emphasis. I just noticed that when I move the cursor from the line in which asterisks are used in this way they disappear.
>
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> Not a serious problem, but I don't recall this happening before---I may just not have noticed---and I would prefer that the asterisks display. 
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> Why does it happen? Can i prevent it.
>

It's probably Vim's "conceal" feature. What is the syntax/filetype of the file you are editing? Conceal is based on syntax highlighting.

You can set the 'conceallevel' option appropriately to prevent the hiding, but syntaxes which use the conceal feature probably do so for a reason.

[Eric Weir]

On Sep 25, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Ben Fritz wrote:

> It's probably Vim's "conceal" feature. What is the syntax/filetype of the file you are editing? Conceal is based on syntax highlighting.
>
> You can set the 'conceallevel' option appropriately to prevent the hiding, but syntaxes which use the conceal feature probably do so for a reason.

Thanks, Ben. This is happening in VimWiki. I've written to the user list to see if VimWiki sets the conceal feature.

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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA
eew...@bellsouth.net

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