Re: gnome-terminal and vi

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> Great! It was so simple!
> I've tried setting TERM to xterm-color and color-xterm... but (for vim) the
> only way to see colors is to set TERM to rxvt and setting 
> gnome-terminal -> properties -> panel colors   as rxvt or linux console.

This looks like a failure in the vim way for autodetecting color.

The most used way is to probe for the variable COLOR_TERM to be set.

Or was that COLORTERM?

Miguel.