Re: Dianosing lack of colour highlighting

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 05:44:38PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Chris Green" <cl@isbd.net>
> | To: "Vile mailing list" <vile@nongnu.org>
> | Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2021 5:40:03 PM
> | Subject: Re: Dianosing lack of colour highlighting
> 
> | 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! :-)
> 
> using builtin-filters simplifies the calling interface, eliminates screen 
> hiccups,
> but whether you get color at all depends on the terminal description
> (e.g., what's TERM set to?)
> 
Thanks.  It's tomorrow morning now. :-)

I've just checked and colour is working on the phone's screen itself,
it's only in an ssh connection to the phone that it's not working.  So
that suggests to me that I need to check what TERM is set to on the
phone itself......

Hmmm, that's not much help.  TERM is set to 'xterm' on the phone
itself and, as I said, colour works in vile there.  But via an ssh
connection (with the client end having TERM=xterm as well) I don't get
colour in vile.  I do get colour in vile when running across ssh
connections to other systems.

Why would I see colour directory listings across the ssh interface but
not colour within vile across ssh?  Whereas colour works for directory
listings *and* within vile when run directly on the phone screen.

-- 
Chris Green