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created August 23, 2006 · complexity basic · author lpenz · version n/a


XTerm and most other modern terminal emulaters support 256 colors, you can use a script to check if your terminal supports 256 colors.

To enable colors on XTerm you will need to run the configure scripts with the --enable-256-color switch, in addition you may also need to set your TERM environment variable to xterm-256color.

For bourne shells (bash, zsh, pdksh) this is done in ~/.profile:

set TERM xterm-256color; export TERM

Or for csh shells this is done in ~/.cshrc:

setenv TERM xterm-256color

See http://frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/ for more information about 256 colors on XTerm


To enable 256 colors in vim, put this your .vimrc before setting the colorscheme:

set t_Co=256

You may also need to add:

set t_AB=^[[48;5;%dm
set t_AF=^[[38;5;%dm

Your colors should at least look a little different. For full effect, use a colorscheme that supports 256 colors like desert256 (script#1243), inkpot (script#1143) or gardener (script#1348).

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