syntax highlighting in vi

Is syntax highlighting there on vi?. I am sshing to an AIX box via putty in windows xp and using vi. I would like to know if there is syntax highlighting feature in vi.(My google-fu failed as all the results pertaining to vi point to vim). If this exists, Is it possible to get the colors in putty?开发者_如何转开发.(I doubt it though, as sending the color information via ssh would be an additional overhead. ). Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Real vi and its exact clones did not support syntax highlighting. That is the reason why your Google queries all ended at vim, which does support it.

Incidentally, I use vim over ssh all the time and the highlighting information does not impact the usability or screen update speed.

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No, syntax highlighting is a vim extension.