Subject: RE: vim and color
From: "Dan Horne" <[email-masked]>
To: "Charles Wilson" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Randall R Schulz" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:00:39 +1300

Thanks that worked

Dan

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From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]On Behalf
Of Charles Wilson
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:52 AM
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Randall R Schulz; [email-masked]
Subject: Re: vim and color

Dan Horne wrote:

> Hi
>
> term is set to xterm. If I do ls -l --color (or set the ls alias to do
so),
> the listing is indeed in colour.

Because 'ls.exe' is less careful about emitting color codes than vim is.
  You can even try this:  within vim, type

:se term=rxvt

and the :r a file in.  It should now show up in color.

--Chuck

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