On 2006-04-14, Sorav Bansal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick help. Here are the answers to the checklist:
>
> > 1. Your terminal emulator must support color.
> > - Does the terminal show colors for other applications?
> Yes, it shows colors for 'ls -- color'
>
> > 2. The TERM environment variable must be set to the type of
> > terminal emulator you are using.
> > - From a shell prompt, what does
> > echo $TERM
> > show?
> $TERM = xterm
>
> > 3. The terminfo database for $TERM must be correct and must
> > indicate that the terminal supports color.
> > - From a shell prompt, if you execute
> > infocmp
> > or
> > untic
> > (depending on your flavor of Unix) you should see some
> > cryptic looking stuff including "colors#8," "colors#16," or
> > "colors#256" in the second or third line. If you don't,
> > then your terminfo database is telling vim that your
> > terminal doesn't support color.
>
> I don't see any 'colors#' in my infocmp output. This seems to be a problem.
The terminfo database is usually found in /usr/lib/terminfo or
/usr/share/lib/terminfo. If you do an 'ls' in the 'x' subdirectory,
you'll see the available xterm terminal types. If you see
"xterm-color" or "xterm-16color" there, try setting TERM to one of
those names and try vim again.
>
> > 4. Vim must be built with a termlib that supports color.
> > - From withing vim, execute
> > :set termcap
> > and look for the "t_Co=" value. It should be the same as
> > the "colors#" from the terminfo database. If the entry is
> > empty or 0, then your termlib may be broken and you may need
> > to recompile vim (if you can) with a different termlib.
> > (HP-UX 10.20 has this problem.)
>
> t_Co is blank.
>
>
> > Problems 3 and 4 can be worked around by following the instructions
> > in ":help xterm-color".
>
> I tried using "set t_Sf=<Esc>[3%p1%dm" in my vimrc file, but instead
> of showing colors, it appends these characters to the keywords. For
> example: <Esc>[32mvoid
Did you use a real escape character as noted just below the "endif"
in that :help entry, or did you use the five characters "<Esc>"?
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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| Spokane, Washington, USA
