Re: Dianosing lack of colour highlighting

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:20:38PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> Well I have vile running OK on my phone running termux but I can't get
> colour syntax highlighting to work.
> 
> I feel as if I have copied all the required configuration files across
> from my Linux systems where colour highlighting works OK,  However, no
> colours.
> 
> The terminal can display in colours as dircolors works when running ls.
> 
> So how to diagnose this?
> 
I've run show-colors and that does show colours so that's a good start.

Looking at the vile help it says I should be doing:-

    ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --with-builtin-filters

to get colour.  Is that --with-builtin-filters necessary to get syntax
highlighting?  If so it might explain my problem! :-)

-- 
Chris Green