256 colors in vim
XTerm and most other modern terminal emulaters support 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
To enable 256 colors in vim, put this your .vimrc before setting the colorscheme:
if &t_Co == 256
colorscheme xoria256
endif
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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