[ILUG] Vim colour support

[Donncha O Caoimh]

Jeremy Smyth wrote:
> 
> I read Ken's wonderful Vim tutorial stuff at the weekend to try to reduce
> the overhead of nedit on my system for stuff like mail and general config
> stuff.
> 
> Why does mutt look all colourful in my rxvt but vim is just beige and black
> (my chosen rxvt), with underlines and bolds instead of blues and pinks when
> I do a :syntax on?
> 
> (RH 5.2, haven't recompiled vim, man page seems to suggest colour's on by
> default)

This is most of what's in my .vimrc, I grabbed most/all of it from
various websites and docs.

Donncha.

Put the following in .vimrc in your home directory:
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" leaving this out makes the colours brighter. 
 if has("terminfo")
  set t_Co=16
  set t_Sf=^[[3%p1%dm
  set t_Sb=^[[4%p1%dm
  set t_vb=
 else
  set t_Co=16
  set t_Sf=^[[3%dm
  set t_Sb=^[[4%dm
  set t_vb=
 endif
syntax on
"------ this clears out the old colors before we begin
highlight Constant    NONE
highlight Delimiter   NONE
highlight Directory   NONE
highlight Error       NONE
highlight ErrorMsg    NONE
highlight Identifier  NONE
highlight LineNr      NONE
highlight ModeMsg     NONE
highlight MoreMsg     NONE
highlight Normal      NONE
highlight NonText     NONE
highlight PreProc     NONE
highlight Question    NONE
highlight Search      NONE
highlight Special     NONE
highlight SpecialKey  NONE
highlight Statement   NONE
highlight StatusLine  NONE
highlight Title       NONE
highlight Todo        NONE
highlight Type        NONE
highlight Visual      NONE
highlight WarningMsg  NONE
"----- these are the new superior colors
highlight Comment     term=bold ctermfg=5 ctermbg=0 guifg=#FF005F
guibg=gray
highlight Constant    term=underline ctermfg=6 guifg=#FF2f8f
highlight Delimiter   term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=1 gui=bold guifg=Red
highlight Directory   term=bold ctermfg=DarkBlue guifg=Blue
highlight Error       term=standout cterm=bold ctermbg=1 ctermfg=1
gui=bold guifg=red
highlight ErrorMsg    term=standout cterm=bold ctermfg=1 gui=bold
guifg=red
highlight Identifier  term=underline ctermfg=3 guifg=yellow3
highlight LineNr      term=underline cterm=bold ctermfg=3 guifg=Brown
highlight ModeMsg     term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=3 ctermbg=1
guifg=yellow2 guibg=red
highlight MoreMsg     term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=2 gui=bold
guifg=Green
highlight NonText     term=bold ctermfg=2 guifg=green3
highlight Normal      ctermfg=white ctermbg=black guifg=grey90
guibg=#000020
highlight PreProc     term=underline ctermfg=14 guifg=cyan
highlight Question    term=standout cterm=bold ctermfg=2 gui=bold
guifg=Green
highlight Search      term=reverse ctermbg=2 guibg=Yellow
highlight Special     term=bold ctermfg=5 guifg=SlateBlue
highlight SpecialKey  term=bold ctermfg=DarkBlue guifg=Blue
highlight Statement   term=bold ctermfg=2 gui=bold guifg=green3
highlight StatusLine  term=reverse cterm=bold ctermfg=3 ctermbg=4
guifg=wheat guibg=#2f4f4f
highlight StatusLineNC term=bold ctermfg=3 ctermbg=2 guifg=#00001f
guibg=#5f9f9f
highlight Title       term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=4 gui=bold guifg=Blue
highlight Todo        term=bold ctermfg=red ctermbg=yellow guifg=red
guibg=yellow1 gui=bold
highlight Type        term=underline cterm=bold ctermfg=3 guifg=yellow3
gui=bold
highlight Visual      term=reverse cterm=bold ctermfg=6 ctermbg=5
guifg=yellow guibg=blue
highlight WarningMsg  term=standout cterm=bold ctermfg=1 ctermbg=4
guifg=Red

" the following is nice too..
set showcmd    " Show (partial) command in status line.
set showmatch     " Show matching brackets.
set ruler      " Show the line and column numbers of the cursor 
set ignorecase    " Do case insensitive matching
set incsearch     " Incremental search
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