Yes, ANSI color has historically been 16 colors. It's an escape character, a left square bracket, and then some data. The data for color and text styles is a semicolon separated list of numbers followed by a lowercase m. 30-37 are foreground colors, 40-47 are background colors, and if there's a '1' it sets it to high intensity to allow 8 'bright colors'. Without that option picked you get to see bold text instead of bright colors and are limited to 8 colors. Your original message said 'full spectrum', I interpreted that as meaning "more than 16 colors". Some terminals (iTerm is one) are able to additionally use a completely different scheme of color numbering and get 88 or 256 colors, while GUI versions of Vim allow 24-bit color. Terminal.app can not show greater than 16 colors on Leopard or Snow Leopard, unfortunately, and might even default to 8 + bold which is even worse.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:21 AM, jml <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmm... > But don't you at least get ANSI color?: > > I found this to be the case by going to Preferences > Settings > Text > > Display ANSI colors && Use Bright Colors for bold text > > I also saw this article, just in case you don't see that option in > your terminal: > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020408225741777 > > On Oct 13, 10:31 pm, Kyle Lippincott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nope, Terminal.app in 10.5 (and afaik 10.6, but I haven't checked.. a > quick > > internet search seems to confirm though) still is 16-color without mouse > > support. iTerm is actually usable lately though, so I've just been using > > that instead. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
