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Re: vi as a text editor



on Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:25:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> 
> | 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!
> 
> If you use a dark (black) background in your terminal like I do, then
> put
>     set bg=dark
>     syn on
> in your .vimrc.  Then vim will use lighter colors for the
> highlighting.  If you want gvim's gui to match, add
>     hi Normal guibg=black guifg=white
> before the 'syn on' line.
> 
> The problem with using TERM=xterm on Solaris is that all you get is
> bold and underlines for "highlighting" because programs will think
> your terminal doesn't have any color support on it.

right, that's exactly my problem.  so you too are saying it should be
dtterm?  or xtermc?  nothing i export my TERM to seems to make any
difference at all.

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