strange behavior of vim syntax highlighting
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 13:14:25 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:00 +0200, Uwe Kiewel wrote:
> Hi world,
>
> I've got a problem using vim's syntax highlighting feature.
>
> System: Runlevel 5, KDE, Fedora 8
>
> - in a text console (STRG-ALT-F1)-> it works
> - ssh to localhost or ssh from a remote system -> it works
> - as user doing su - user -> it works
> - opening a xterm in KDE -> it doesn't work
>
>
> My question: What is the difference between the first 3 ways and the
> last one in allocating the vim environment?
>
> Thanks,
> Uwe
>
What's the output of xterm's TERM?
$ echo $TERM
... Try:
$ TERM=xterm-color vim ...
- Gilboa
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