Paul Lemmons wrote:
What causes a konsole session to show or not show colors? I have one
machine that "ls" will show color coded files and vi will show syntax
highlighted text. On another machine everything is green.
Is vi an alias for vim/gvim? Which Fedora version?
I believe that in both cases this is due to configuration (either
default or user specific). I'm not a KDE user but for a CLI window,
bash reads and includes the contents of /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh
which defines the colors used for ls. For GVIM, the colors I believe
are dependent on whether you are running console (vim) or gui (gvim). I
don't think console vim has color ability (that may have changed for
later versions of vim, though). Start gvim and do :help syntax and you
can start to learn all about it. In vim/gvim you can do a :version
command and it will tell you where the initialization files are. You
typically have to have "syntax on" in one of the startup gvimrc files
for the color highlights to work (check out :help gvimrc). Some systems
have this set up by default, others do not.
I'm sure there are others here that can give you a lot more detail.
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