2016-09-24 7:05 GMT+03:00 Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 4:26 AM, KiYugadgeter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is vim supporting 24 bit colors? >> >> I want to use vim on windows10 bash. >> >> windows 10 bash is supporting 24bit colors on beta version. >> >> Will vim support 24bit colors? > > Vim supports between 2 (2^1) and 16777216 (2^24) colors, depending on > how many _it can tell that_ your terminal supports. This is set by the > termcap variable t_Co or by the equivalent terminfo setting, and these > settings depend in turn on the 'term' setting (q.v.) If $TERM is not > set, and Vim has no way of knowing otherwise, it will set an > OS-dependent 'term' default: for 32- or 64-bit Windows, 'term' > defaults to "win32". To see the number of colours Vim thinks that your > terminal supports, use > :set t_Co?
&t_Co will never give you 24-bit value. Also termcap/terminfo do not normally contain information about 24-bit colors support, though tmux developers has selected some custom setting they use to detect 24-bit support. Vim AFAIK does not use it. > > For me, 256 colors are good enough, and once I set up my vimrc to make > Vim use (as closely as possible) the same colors in a console and in > the GUI, I can't tell the difference by the naked eye. See > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Using_GUI_color_settings_in_a_terminal > > See also ":help term.txt", especially the first two sections. > > > Best regards, > Tony. > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
