Should vim under cygwin have color?

[Mark S.]

Is vim under cygwin able to have more than the white-on-black color? It
doesn't seem to know/care about the colorscheme setting.

Thanks,
Mark

[Anton Sharonov]

I suspect, it is rather issue of terminal program than a vim.

Unfortunately I can't help with cygwing vim running in standard
windows cmd.exe terminal. May be it is also somehow possible to
get colors with it - but I personally have never really tried it.
(For me usage of cmd.exe as terminal were not an option from the
beginning due to cmd.exe issues with UTF8 encoding).

I use PuTTYcyg [1] as my terminal program for cygwin. It allows
256 colors, this is enough, to reach approximately the same
quality of colors as in gvim (given that you use proper
colorscheme, my choice is peaksea [2]).

Anton.

[1] PuTTYcyg
http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/

[2] peaksea colorscheme created by Pan Shizhu
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=760

2008/9/20, Mark S. <thro...@yahoo.com>:

[Mark S.]

Hello Anton,

Thanks for your reply. It appears that with PuTTYcyg I can get some
schemes. Most of the schemes end up being the horrible white on black,
but the peaksea does seem to work OK.

Thanks again,
Mark

--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Anton Sharonov <anton.s...@gmail.com> wrote: