Re: (xterm or rxvt) and VIM

[Dave Bateman <batemand@mindspring.com>]

Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've been reading into the VIM online help a lot lately and I am truly
> impressed what this editor can do for me.  And to include the obligatory
> flame bait: I'll never touch Emacs again -- which is, of course,
> nonsense.
>
> Anyway, while the online help is really great it leaves me with a
> problem: I use VIM in a KDE konsole window which sets TERM to xterm.
> However, in Debian the termcap entry for xterm doesn't support colors.
> So in order to get true color highlighting in VIM (which KDE's konsole
> supports) I use the hack outlined in /usr/doc/vim-rt/examples/color,
> which fouls VIM into thinking that it's running on a rxvt.

what about gvim? it pops in its own window and everything seems to work AFAIK.

HTH,
Dave

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