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I'm working on a remote system via SSH. The remote system had a few niggly little problems that are of annoyance to me, but I've fixed most of them up. The most frustrating issue I'm having at the moment is that VIM isn't using colours for syntax highlighting (i.e. after executing :syntax on) - instead, text is bold, underlined, etc.
I checked the VIM documentation and it mentions something about the type of terminal program being used, recommending xterm. Now, I know for a fact the remote system isn't running X at all, yet "echo $TERM" outputs "xterm". I think this may be the problem, but I don't know what else I should set TERM to.
Also possibly of interest is the fact that ls output is correctly coloured (i.e. different colours for executable files, directories, sockets and devices).
Perhaps it's not TERM that's the problem after all ...?
Alright, if TERM is unset all together, syntax highlighting occurs correctly, but now my END and HOME keys do funky stuff, presumably because of things from /etc/inputrc ... argh!
And everything (including HOME/END) works great.
I find it a bit odd that xterm-color fixes things though, considering the remote system isn't running X ...
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