Automatic Highlighting

[Forethinker]

Currently I have to type :ColorToggle to enable color highlighting.
Is autocmd in my .vimrc the only way to enable color highlighting by default?
Is there a design choice of why it is not enable by default? I do not working with big files, but I was curious if my gVim will slow down a lot in such cases.

[lilydjwg]

Well, what about a global variable then---set the following and colorizer will be enabled at startup:

let g:colorizer_startup = 1

[Forethinker]

I set the variable as you have suggested, but it did not work me. I could not find that variable anywhere in colorizer.vim . ColorToggle is working fine for me though.

[lilydjwg]

Hi, I was asking if a global variable is better than an autocmd for you. I've added that just now. Please update.
To me, they're both one line anyway...

[Forethinker]

Thanks. I actually wanted it to be the default behavior, because I think that is what the end user would expect when he/she installs a plugin. That variable can be used to disable the auto highlighting instead and I think there wouldn't be any surprises. It is more likely that the advanced users can figure things out and disable it by merely glancing over the plugin file.

[lilydjwg]

That makes sense. Updated.