The solution is simply "tidy"/Tidy-HTML. It will take your poorly formatted HTML code (and I mean files that span just a few lines that are unreadable) and fix it up.
Note the command below does everything in place. *Make sure you take a backup of all .html files*
It also seems to break html5 code/templates so beware.
tidy -im yourfile.html
An automated way in bash:........
Within vi if you can't exit /etc/vim/vimrc you can type
:syntax off
And to turn it back on:
:syntax on
Many of us have a dark/black background in our terminal/shell making the default syntax unreadable, the solution is to either turn off syntax highlighting with :syntax off or to enable a special option in /etc/vim/vimrc
Edit /etc/vim/vimrc
The "syntax on" enables the highligh........
I had a dying drive that smart thought until it totally disappeared was a good drive, and actually all parameters did look fine but this system was causing my system to lockup and other bad behavior:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0
Serial Number: WD-WMAZ20139
Firmware Version: 50.0AB50
User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes
Device........