From: Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: TERM setting under Gentoo Linux Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:25:17 -0700
> On 2006-04-21, Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > in respect of colorschemes: What is the "best" setting for the TERM > > environmental variable ? I did a ":help TERM" but found nothing which > > would answer my question. > > I guess it would be "xterm-256color", if your xterm supports that > many colors. It probably does. Otherwise, "xterm-88color" or > "xterm-16color" would still give you more than the 8 colors > supported by "xterm-color" or "xterm". > > > The colorscheme section of that pages > > stated that "xterm-color" would have color, but my current settings > > are "TERM=xterm" and I do have (less? only a few?) colors... > > > > Unfortunately I only have the compiled version of the terminfo > > database... > > To see the terminfo database description of your terminal ($TERM) on > a Linux system, execute "infocmp" at the shell prompt. The third > line of output from that command should contain the numerical > parameters and their values; "colors#" will have the number of > colors supported. > > To see what terminals are supported by your terminfo database, > execute "toe" (or maybe "toe | grep xterm") for a listing of > terminal types and their descriptions. > > You can find out more about the terminfo database and tools to > access and manipulate it from these man pages: > > terminfo > infocmp > tic > toe > > Making a personal, customizable copy of the terminfo database entry > for your terminal isn't too difficult, should you need to so. I > wouldn't think you'd need to do that on a Linux system, though. > > HTH, > Gary > > -- > Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division > | Spokane, Washington, USA > Hi Gary, one question remains -- I thought it has something to do with the (previously) limited number of colors of my TERM settings...but... "desert" is described as "dark color scheme". When I start vim (NOT gvim -- I am more commandline related ;) on a mrxvt (terminal a la xterm), which has a black background set per default and then load "desert" either via vimrc or by hand everthing looks nice. But when I do the same on a "not inverted" mrxvt (black characters on white background - the default) the "desert" colors came out rather unreadable (some keywords are highlighted bright yellow on white background.... :/ ) -- the background does not change to black. In the head of the desert.vim file I found: set background=dark Since desert.vim not only defines color settings for "gui*" but also for "cterm*" I think it should work on both. Since desert.vim is rated on vim.org very high, I think the problem is on my side anywhere ... ;O) I set TERM to xterm-256color now and checked with infocmp, that there are really 256 colors. What did I wrong so badly here ? Kind regards, mcc
