no colors in vim on command line

rajeev1982 · 05-08-2006, 03:08 AM

Hi All,
I am using vim 6.3 on AIX 5.2, I can see the colors in ls command and other command, but when I run the vi there are no colors in that. when i run the command 'vi -g' it opens an X window and stats showing the colors. pleaes help me... I also have tried export TERM=xterm-color, but no luck. please anybody help me in this.

Mega Man X · 05-09-2006, 12:53 PM

Did you try to enable syntax highlighting? Go into command mode and type "syntax on". If that does not work, you maybe don't have any default colors for vim. You may add color to your /pathtovim/vim63/colors (just a guess). You can download a color sample from here:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_...hp?src_id=4010

rajeev1982 · 05-09-2006, 11:25 PM

Hi Mega Man X,
I can see the colors now, I have added the folowing lines to my .vimrc file.

if &term =~ "xterm"
if has("terminfo")
set t_Co=8
set t_Sf=^[[3%p1%dm
set t_Sb=^[[4%p1%dm
else
set t_Co=8
set t_Sf=^[[3%dm
set t_Sb=^[[4%dm
endif
endif

" where ^[ is actual <Ctrl-V> + <Esc>.

mezhaka · 06-04-2009, 03:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rajeev1982

Hi Mega Man X,
I can see the colors now, I have added the folowing lines to my .vimrc file.

if &term =~ "xterm"
if has("terminfo")
set t_Co=8
set t_Sf=^[[3%p1%dm
set t_Sb=^[[4%p1%dm
else
set t_Co=8
set t_Sf=^[[3%dm
set t_Sb=^[[4%dm
endif
endif

" where ^[ is actual <Ctrl-V> + <Esc>.

thanks a lot -- this has worked out for me. may be you can briefly comment on the meaning if this code snipet?

grantwnorman · 09-12-2012, 02:01 PM

You can also simply append "syntax on" to the .vimrc file and it will enable syntax highlighting with one line.

wow just realized this is a super old thread. Hopefully the info will still help anyone else who is searching for this solution like I was.

andstein · 02-05-2015, 10:03 AM

as rajeev1982 has pointed out, setting t_Co might do the trick

in my case, I was using tmux, which sets the environment variable TERM=screen, and vim sets t_Co=8 accordingly

to fix, I now specify tmux to set TERM=screen-256color by adding the following line to ~/.tmux.conf:

Code:

set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"

then, I let VIM set the variable t_Co accordingly by adding the following to ~/.vimrc:

Code:

if &term =~ "-256color$"
  set t_Co=256
endif