Re: gnome-terminal and vi

[Andrea Bosio <ollerot usa net>]

On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 11:59:22AM -0600, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> > gnome-terminal doesn't show colors with vi! (I've tryed vim and nvi).
> > In all other apps (lynx, mc.. and so on) it works well, with all their colors!
> > Is it normal?
> This might be a problem in the way vim/nvi detect the color terminal.
> Try setting TERM variable to "xterm-color" or "color-xterm"

Great! It was so simple!
I've tried setting TERM to xterm-color and color-xterm... but (for vim) the
only way to see colors is to set TERM to rxvt and setting 
gnome-terminal -> properties -> panel colors   as rxvt or linux console.

Thanks a lot! :)

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Ciao, Andrea