----- Original Message ----- | From: "Chris Green" <c...@isbd.net> | To: "Vile mailing list" <vile@nongnu.org> | Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2021 5:40:03 PM | Subject: Re: Dianosing lack of colour highlighting
| 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! :-) using builtin-filters simplifies the calling interface, eliminates screen hiccups, but whether you get color at all depends on the terminal description (e.g., what's TERM set to?) -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net