On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Laran Evans wrote:
> So, I'm working with 8 colors in my rxvt terminal. It seems that's all
> that's available. Where this really becomes a drag is when trying to
> apply different color themes in Vim. Most light colored themes all look
> the same, with colors reducing to the 8 available.
>
> So, my question is this: Can I use some different option to get a more
> robust color terminal?
>
> My Cygwin.bat currently looks like this:
>
> @echo off
> C:
> chdir C:\Cygwin\bin
> C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e bash --login -i
>
> Any suggestions?
Both rxvt and the cmd.exe window only support 16 colors. I guess you
could run X and use an xterm (which should support 256 colors, IIRC).
Alternatively, you could compile (and, hopefully, contribute) gvim. :-)
Igor
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