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Re: vim and color
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: dhorne at xtra dot co dot nz
- Cc: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:51:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: vim and color
- References: <BLEDKFLJDLPNJONGFLHNEEHDCAAB.dhorne@xtra.co.nz>
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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