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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:33:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michal Guerquin <mikeg@u.washington.edu>
To: UW Linux Group <linux@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: color codes displaying incorrectly in vim
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On 2002-04-15 at 06:52, Jesse Keating wrote:

>On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:49:45 -0700
>"Ryan Hennig" <rhennig@cs.washington.edu> issued forth:
>
>> 'm using vim while ssh'd into a remote host, trying to edit a file with
>> syntax highlighting turned on.
>>
>> However, instead of nifty color coding, I get all these control
>> characters printed on the screen, like: ^[34m~
>>
>> Do you guys have any ideas about where I should look to figure out
>> what's going on?  I don't think this is a vim-specific problem, but I'm
>> not sure what's going wrong here.
>
>echo $TERM
>
>Your term variable may be b0rked, and vim doesn't have a valid termcap entry
>for it maybe?

For me, with a FreeBSD system, I get good results with:

  TERM=xterm-color

Also important, though not relevant if you see "^[34m~", is the ssh client
you're using needs to be decent.. try PuTTy (google it). It works wonders.

~ Michal
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