Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: From: "Dan Horne" To: "Charles Wilson" Cc: "Randall R Schulz" , Subject: RE: vim and color Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:39:49 +1300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-Reply-To: <3C3DF93E.9080706@ece.gatech.edu> Importance: Normal Hi term is set to xterm. If I do ls -l --color (or set the ls alias to do so), the listing is indeed in colour. Dan -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:28 AM To: dhorne@xtra.co.nz Cc: Randall R Schulz; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: vim and color Dan Horne wrote: > Thanks Randall > > upon further investigation (and putting .vimrc in my home directory on not > gvimrc doh) I've discovered that color-coding is working if I use the > command window. However, if I use rxvt, I lose color and instead get text > emphasis in bolds and underlines. Obviously, I'm missing something but not > sure what. What does `echo $TERM' say? "xterm" doesn't support color -- but "rxvt" does. Try: export TERM=rxvt when you're using rxvt. Use TERM=cygwin when you use the bash-in-a-command.com window. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/