Hi! On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Matt Wozniski wrote: > > Here's my problem. I like >8-color schemes. Unfortunately, my > > terminal of choice (urxvt) only supports 88 colors (t_Co=88). > > Thus, most colorschemes revert to their 8-color behaviour or > > simply do nothing, neither of which is what I want. > > You might like my CSApprox plugin, check it out: > http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2390
I will definitely give it a shot (on those systems where I can't control screens behaviour (enough) with the solution below). > > The most excellent colorscheme "desert256" is both to my liking > > and works well in plain urxvt. It's when screen is involved that > > things go south. Screen tells vim that t_Co is 8 which is not > > only wrong, but also ugly. If I tell vim by hand that t_Co is 88, > > things become trippy but not beautiful. With t_Co=256 it looks > > almost like the default case without screen (close enough for me, > > anyway). > > screen doesn't "tell" vim that t_Co is 8, screen tells vim that the > terminal type is "screen" and vim looks that up and figures out that > the "screen" terminal supports 8 colors. The way to fix this is to > configure screen to advertise the terminal type more accurately by > putting something like > > term screen-256color-bce > > in your ~/.screenrc. You might need to install this terminfo entry - > on Debian/Ubuntu, you can do that by installing the ncurses-term > package, other distros will vary. If nothing else, you can look up > how to decompile the terminfo entry on a system that has it, copy the > plain text version to the system that doesn't have it, and recompile > it there. That works (nearly[0]) perfectly, thanks a bunch! I hadn't know screen has this "256-color mode" and needs to be told to advertise it. But I do see how some machines without the proper terminfo/termcap entries might barf so the screen devs went for a safe default. > > - Whose fault is this? > > - How do I fix it? > > Hope that helps, but if you need more help feel free to ask. Oh it does work very well. Now I only need to find out why one machien is still a bit stupid about term colors, but that might be a genuine bug in urxvt on 64 bit machines. Unfortunately, I only have sporadic access. Thanks again, Tobias PS: Bill, I appreciate your input and it made it *nearly* work (modulo the machine mentioned above), so thanks to you, too, of course! -- : You are in a dark room with a compiler, vi, an internet connection, : and a thermos of coffee. : Your move ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
