在vim中打开C文件时我看不到颜色

Question

I dont see colors when open a C file in vim, check my terminal type using the folllowing command

> echo $TERM
vt100

Is it because vt100 doesn't supports colors. How can I change the same?

Answer 1

I'd suggest

:syntax on

_{Note ^[1]}

But it could be your version of Vim was

• compiled without support for synatx highlighting
• not packaged with the syntax definitions for C

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_{Note ^[1]} In fact

 filetype plugin on
 filetype indent on
 syntax on

are good to have in your .vimrc

Answer 2

type:
:syntax on
then
:colorscheme and then press TAB and select what you want.

Answer 3

:set t_Co? tells you what Vim thinks about the available colors. If this is empty or 2 , you obviously should try to fix the terminal type $TERM , either by using another terminal that gets detected properly, or by updating the variable's content (most terminals will work with a value of xterm , which gets you 16 colors).