On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Kyle Lippincott <[email protected]>wrote:

> This typically indicates that TERM is not set properly.  I assume you use
> Terminal.app, bash, and the default 10.5 or 10.6 ssh.  This should
> automatically get you a 16-color terminal.  In vim on the Centos box, what
> do you get when you run: ":set t_Co?"  What about ":set term?"  Try setting
> t_Co to be 8 (it will use bold to simulate 16, which you can configure in
> Terminal.app's settings): ":set t_Co=8".
>
> Ensure of course that you have a color scheme and syntax file set: ":set
> ft?" to determine if the filetype was identified correctly, and ":color
> koehler" should work on a low-color terminal.
>
> If you were to use iTerm2 you would be able to have 256 colors, but that
> probably involves a bit more setup than the simple case listed above.
>
>
>
I typed vim instead of vi.  That was it.  We aparently have more than one
version of vi and one worked and the other did not.  Thanks for your
efforts.   BTW - I downloaded iterm2 and tried it out and I think I like the
normal Terminal better.

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