Re: vim syntax highlighting failed in xterm

Jerry Fleming <jerry@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am running vim on a linux box and logged in though ssh. The problem is
that, although I use `syntax on`, there are no colors. And colortest.vim
shows a lot of lines line this:

^[[33m 4 ^[[32m^[[40m" Last Change: 2006 Feb 20

at least two of the rpm-based distributions packaged a set of corrupt
termcap or terminfo entries about a year ago. It did just what you're
showing here.

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