On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:20:38PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Well I have vile running OK on my phone running termux but I can't get > colour syntax highlighting to work. > > I feel as if I have copied all the required configuration files across > from my Linux systems where colour highlighting works OK, However, no > colours. > > The terminal can display in colours as dircolors works when running ls. > > So how to diagnose this? > I've run show-colors and that does show colours so that's a good start.
Looking at the vile help it says I should be doing:- ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --with-builtin-filters to get colour. Is that --with-builtin-filters necessary to get syntax highlighting? If so it might explain my problem! :-) -- Chris Green