[OS X TeX] colour syntax in Vim: success

[Maarten Sneep]

On 12 jul 2004, at 15:53, Jesse Billett wrote:

> I found that setting my terminal to xterm-color didn't work, but the 
> following solution did:
>
> In .vimrc, I added the following commands at the end of the file:
>
> :set term=builtin_iris-ansi
> :syntax on

You need both (a color capable terminal as indicated by xterm-color, 
and you need to activate the colors in vim).

> % mkdir ~/bin
> % cp /bin/lsc ~/bin
> % alias ls "~/bin/lsc --color=always"

Be very careful with this! using this alias may screw up some shell 
scripts, better alias to lsc instead of ls (it took me several hours to 
figure out this very problem some time ago).

Maarten 

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