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Takaitra

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From: Minnesota

Registered: 2004-05-24

Posts: 10

Color in Vim

I've been writing some PHP files on my arch box using vim and I realized there was no color syntax highlighting. After googling, searching the forum, and fiddling with some configuration files, I still haven't seen any color in my vim. When I enable syntax highlighting by adding "syntax on" to my ~/.vimrc, the PHP file gains some underlining and bold text. That's a step up from nothing, but not color. My /usr/share/vim/syntax files exist and they must be noticed by vim since it is doing a sort of b&w highlighting. I'm using gnome-terminal which supports color. When I "ls" in Arch, I get a colorful listing. My bash prompt is in color. So why isn't color working in vim?!

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: Color in Vim

Take a look at :help xterm-color from within vim.

If that doesn't do it, try setting the TERM shell variable to let programs know that colour is available. Here's mine:

TERM=xterm-xfree86, but I use xterm. Take a look at this page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Why … rminals%3F for some more terminal related stuff.

Dusty

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Takaitra

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From: Minnesota

Registered: 2004-05-24

Posts: 10

Re: Color in Vim

Setting my TERM shell variable worked perfectly, thank you.