256 Color VIM on Crunchbang Waldorf

Posted on by David Craddock

256 Colours in VIMTo get 256 colors working within terminator in Crunchbang Waldorf, I had to do the following:

  1. Add to ~/.bashrc 
    export TERM=xterm-256color
  2. Install a 256 color VIM colorcheme, see desert256 for example.
  3. Add the following to ~/.vimrc: 
    set t_Co=256
set t_AB=^[[48;5;%dm
set t_AF=^[[38;5;%dm

    ‘t_Co’ specifies exactly how many colours VIM can use. The other two lines seem to be Debian-specific color code escape sequences.

  4. If you want 256 color VIM for your root user when you sudo edit, then edit /usr/share/vim/vimrc and copy across your settings from your local ~/.vimrc and ~/.vim to this global environment.

Published by David Craddock