I ~think~ this is because the color settings of your XTerm conflict with (or
override) those of your gvim. Try setting your XTerm as "Linux Console"
(Debian may call it something else - but I've seen similar problems running
Mutt with colors turned on, in a redhat / gnome xterm)
Suresh Ramasubramanian | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sridhar M.A. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 11:32 AM
> To: Linux India Help
> Subject: [LIH]
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> I am facing a peculiar problem with colours in gvim under X.
> I am using vim 5.4 with syntax coloring switched on under Debian
> slink. The colors for the keywords when I invoke gvim from an xterm are
> different from those when gvim is invoked from a menu. I have seen
> this behaviour under icewm, wmaker and fvwm. How do I get the same
> colours for gvim irrespective of from where gvim is invoked?
>
>
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