Re: vim syntax highlighting does not work in screen

[aladdin]

Michael Parson wrote:
> What is your TERM env set to?
>
> I tend to have mine set to either xterm or vt220, which lets the syntax
> highlighting and coloring come through.  Does color-ls colorizes your ls
> output?
>
> If vim doesn't fire up in colorized mode, I'll usually exit and try it
> with (under bash):
>
> $ TERM=xterm vim somescript.pl
>
> That will set the term type to xterm for just that one command.
>
> But my 'screen' command is aliased to start with vt220 as the default
> term type:
>
> alias screen='screen -T vt220'
>
> which works fine for everything except when I try to run vim under sudo,
> the highlighting works, but colors don't, so I do the TERM=xterm trick
> above, which makes the colors show up again.

Thanks for your suggestion. I checked the $TERM env and it was set to 
xterm, both inside and outside of SCREEN. But the highlighting and 
coloring still did not work.

BTW, ls --color rendered the output colorized. I configured the vim to 
show line numbers and I found they were colorized(green), but the file 
contents were not. Seems strange...

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Aladdin