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Old 03-24-2005, 05:10 PM   #1
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what controls colors in vi/vim?


Hi, I have two supposedly "identical" RHEL boxes. One I use for my desktop and another is a workstation. They both have RHEL3 and are similarily updated.

On my desktop machine vi/vim (I'm not sure which I'm using, I use the command vi) color-codes C, tex, .csh files when I edit them. On my workstation boxes vi (or vim) does no such thing.

I'm assuming I merely need to copy over some config files from my desktop to the workstations (I am root on these boxes) but I have no idea what to copy.

Please help!
 
Old 03-24-2005, 05:37 PM   #2
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try copy your ~/.vimrc file or create one with :
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set nocompatible
syntax on
 
Old 03-24-2005, 05:42 PM   #3
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this succeded in giving me bold/underlines but no colors...
 
Old 03-24-2005, 05:51 PM   #4
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Found it:

My xterm wasn't supporting color for some reason. Need to add

setenv TERM xterm-color

to .login or something like that...
 
  


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