I had this exact problem last week trying to get it to work within eTerm -
there is a set of lines that need to be added to you .vimrc depending on
whether you have 16 colour or 8 colour support.
Type
:help colour-xterm
while in vim and follow the instructions there.
Peter McEvoy
Senior Technical Analyst
IONA Technologies PLC
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Smyth [mailto:JSmyth at Braxtel.com]
> Sent: 06 September 2000 16:06
> To: 'ilug at linux.ie'
> Subject: [ILUG] Vim colour support
>>> I read Ken's wonderful Vim tutorial stuff at the weekend to try to reduce
> the overhead of nedit on my system for stuff like mail and general config
> stuff.
>> Why does mutt look all colourful in my rxvt but vim is just beige
> and black
> (my chosen rxvt), with underlines and bolds instead of blues and
> pinks when
> I do a :syntax on?
>> (RH 5.2, haven't recompiled vim, man page seems to suggest colour's on by
> default)
>> /jer
>
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