On Jul 1 16:37, Marc Haisenko wrote: > 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".
xterm has color capabilities for ages and the terminfo xterm entry contains this information. Of course, when linking against libtermcap instead of ncurses... ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
