On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 13:59 +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > Hi > > No. I mean have a colourful screen when I editing a Python script for > example. > > I just tried in a opensuse 10.2 machine and "syntax on" works. What > made > me think that is a Fedora specific issue. > > Thanks > > Marcelo > > gerrynix wrote: When you read the relevant lines in /e/tc/vimrc you see: " Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors " Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern. if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running") syntax on set hlsearch endif Which implies that your termminal has to be configured with colors before syntax on will work. -- ======================================================================= You're never too old to become younger. -- Mae West ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list