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.
>
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