Re: Dianosing lack of colour highlighting

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Chris Green" <cl@isbd.net>
| To: "Vile mailing list" <vile@nongnu.org>
| Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2021 5:40:03 PM
| Subject: Re: Dianosing lack of colour highlighting

| On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:20:38PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
|> Well I have vile running OK on my phone running termux but I can't get
|> colour syntax highlighting to work.
|> 
|> I feel as if I have copied all the required configuration files across
|> from my Linux systems where colour highlighting works OK,  However, no
|> colours.
|> 
|> The terminal can display in colours as dircolors works when running ls.
|> 
|> So how to diagnose this?
|> 
| I've run show-colors and that does show colours so that's a good start.
| 
| Looking at the vile help it says I should be doing:-
| 
|    ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --with-builtin-filters
| 
| to get colour.  Is that --with-builtin-filters necessary to get syntax
| highlighting?  If so it might explain my problem! :-)

using builtin-filters simplifies the calling interface, eliminates screen 
hiccups,
but whether you get color at all depends on the terminal description
(e.g., what's TERM set to?)

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