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Re: colors and vi



On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:38:36PM +0300, erez@savan.com wrote:
> Ilya Tsindlekht wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:24:16AM +0300, erez@savan.com wrote:
> > > HI
> > >
> > > after I upgraded from RH5.2 to RH6.0, vim doesn't manuipulate colors
> > > anymore
> > > under xterm (though it does under VT and also as gvim).
> > >
> > > anyone ???
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > erez.
> > Must be either xterm in RH6.0 is not color xterm or (much more probably) the
> > TERM environment variable in your Xterm shell is set to xterm, and you should
> > set it to xterm-color for colors to work in vim
> > 
> there is no color-xterm program, but still 'ls' shows colors in an
> xterm.
So it isn't xterm problem.
> setting the term or TERM enviroment variable to color-xterm or
> color_xterm
> did not change anything.
Have you tried 'xterm-color'? It works for me on RH5.0. You may also try
setting it to 'linux', which isn't correct (it is type for linux console), but
also works on my system.


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