colors in vim
This is a basic question, but I still could not figure out how to do it: I am unable to get colors for my vim editor on some of the cluster machines in my university. Vim is using underlining and bold-font to highlight language keywords and comments. How can I get vim to use colors instead of underlining and bold-font. thanks in advance! Sorav
Re: colors in vim
Thanks for the quick help. Here are the answers to the checklist: 1. Your terminal emulator must support color. - Does the terminal show colors for other applications? Yes, it shows colors for 'ls -- color' 2. The TERM environment variable must be set to the type of terminal emulator you are using. - From a shell prompt, what does echo $TERM show? $TERM = xterm 3. The terminfo database for $TERM must be correct and must indicate that the terminal supports color. - From a shell prompt, if you execute infocmp or untic (depending on your flavor of Unix) you should see some cryptic looking stuff including colors#8, colors#16, or colors#256 in the second or third line. If you don't, then your terminfo database is telling vim that your terminal doesn't support color. I don't see any 'colors#' in my infocmp output. This seems to be a problem. 4. Vim must be built with a termlib that supports color. - From withing vim, execute :set termcap and look for the t_Co= value. It should be the same as the colors# from the terminfo database. If the entry is empty or 0, then your termlib may be broken and you may need to recompile vim (if you can) with a different termlib. (HP-UX 10.20 has this problem.) t_Co is blank. Problems 3 and 4 can be worked around by following the instructions in :help xterm-color. I tried using set t_Sf=Esc[3%p1%dm in my vimrc file, but instead of showing colors, it appends these characters to the keywords. For example: Esc[32mvoid thanks for your help again! Sorav
Re: colors in vim
On 2006-04-14, Sorav Bansal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick help. Here are the answers to the checklist: 1. Your terminal emulator must support color. - Does the terminal show colors for other applications? Yes, it shows colors for 'ls -- color' 2. The TERM environment variable must be set to the type of terminal emulator you are using. - From a shell prompt, what does echo $TERM show? $TERM = xterm 3. The terminfo database for $TERM must be correct and must indicate that the terminal supports color. - From a shell prompt, if you execute infocmp or untic (depending on your flavor of Unix) you should see some cryptic looking stuff including colors#8, colors#16, or colors#256 in the second or third line. If you don't, then your terminfo database is telling vim that your terminal doesn't support color. I don't see any 'colors#' in my infocmp output. This seems to be a problem. The terminfo database is usually found in /usr/lib/terminfo or /usr/share/lib/terminfo. If you do an 'ls' in the 'x' subdirectory, you'll see the available xterm terminal types. If you see xterm-color or xterm-16color there, try setting TERM to one of those names and try vim again. 4. Vim must be built with a termlib that supports color. - From withing vim, execute :set termcap and look for the t_Co= value. It should be the same as the colors# from the terminfo database. If the entry is empty or 0, then your termlib may be broken and you may need to recompile vim (if you can) with a different termlib. (HP-UX 10.20 has this problem.) t_Co is blank. Problems 3 and 4 can be worked around by following the instructions in :help xterm-color. I tried using set t_Sf=Esc[3%p1%dm in my vimrc file, but instead of showing colors, it appends these characters to the keywords. For example: Esc[32mvoid Did you use a real escape character as noted just below the endif in that :help entry, or did you use the five characters Esc? HTH, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: colors in vim
Did you use a real escape character as noted just below the endif in that :help entry, or did you use the five characters Esc? Great! It worked! Thanks a ton! Sorav
