On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When running 7.2a in an xterm under Cygwin, the color capabilities
> of the xterm are not used. Rather, vim uses only standard terminal
> capabilities like underline, bold, etc.
>
> This doesn't happen with vim 7.1. Running vim 7.1 in an xterm under
> Cygwin shows all colors the xterm is capable of.
> in the syntax color settings.
Well, "xterm" really has no color support. It was monochrome. You need to set
the TERM variable to either "xterm-color" or even "xterm-256color".
If you don't want to do that, a work-around is descriped in vim's help, "help
color-xterm".
Marc
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