XSHELL - Syntax highlighting [7]

How to get colors (syntax highlighting) when doing VI a text file? On some VNC session on Linux, you can see colors in text file which makes it easy to read.

Is it possible in XSHELL too? TIA!!

Program Ver. : Xshell 3.0

Try this:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/turn-on-or-off-color-syntax-highlighting-in-vi-or-vim/

Yah googled it, didn't work though.

Depending on your Shell environment, you may have to use a different terminal type. Color syntax works on xterm or vt320 for me.

To change your terminal type, use the following commnad.

# export TERM=xterm

or

# export TERM=vt320

Didn't work me for me on Bash.

What file did you test with? I opened a .sql file and it didn't show any syntax colors.

You have to make sure if your VI/VIM supports syntax highlighting feature. Older VIs did not have this feature. Try opening the file on console and see if it works. If not, it is possible that your VI does not support syntax highlighting feature.

I think vi is crap and I recommend mcedit (from the Midnight Commander).

That said, try also setting the Terminal Type in Emulation -> Termina to "xterm-color" instead of the default "xterm".

Dan,

"vi is crap"!!!
haah... better you go back to win32 notepad...