Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been reading into the VIM online help a lot lately and I am truly > impressed what this editor can do for me. And to include the obligatory > flame bait: I'll never touch Emacs again -- which is, of course, > nonsense. > > Anyway, while the online help is really great it leaves me with a > problem: I use VIM in a KDE konsole window which sets TERM to xterm. > However, in Debian the termcap entry for xterm doesn't support colors. > So in order to get true color highlighting in VIM (which KDE's konsole > supports) I use the hack outlined in /usr/doc/vim-rt/examples/color, > which fouls VIM into thinking that it's running on a rxvt.
what about gvim? it pops in its own window and everything seems to work AFAIK. HTH, Dave <snip>