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
