[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: vi as a text editor



On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Sat, 16 Nov 2002 06:15:20PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated:
> > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:05:38AM -0600,  Rob VanFleet wrote:
> > | since Solaris never seems to understand my remote terminal well
> > | enough to allow syntax highlighting.  Does anyone know how to fix
> > | that? :)
> > 
> > export TERM=dtterm
> > 
> > The termcap on Solaris is a bit braindead since xterm and friends
> > entries lack color support.  I did manage to discover, at one point,
> > that the dtterm (their CDE terminal emulator) entry has color
> > support and is compatible with xterm.
> 
> really?  i've been beating my head against this for a while now, and
> have to date only managed to get dark-blue-and-pink syntax
> highlighting on the Suns i work on ... exporting TERM=dtterm doesn't
> seem to do much, either.  do i need to rewrite my syntax highlighting
> configuration files, or something?  any tips on this would be greatly
> appreciated!

This works for me in .bashrc on solaris 8:

    if [ `uname` = "SunOS" ]; then
      export TERM=xtermc
    fi

I compiled vim with ncurses5, not the sun curses library.


> 
> </nori>
> 
> -- 
>     .~.      nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu 
>     /V\  http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/
>    // \\          @ maenad.net
>   /(   )\       www.maenad.net
>    ^`~'^




Reply to: