Hi,
I'm trying to get a start with VIM, so I'm following Derek Wyatt's video tutorials. However I can't get colorschemes working in VIM for syntax highlighting.
Clearly I'm doing something wrong, or are too dumb to use VIM (The latter is a real possibility)!!!
I've figured out that Xterm is only running in 8 color mode, not 256 colors, so I found this HowTo which I've attempted to follow to get 256 colors working.
http://push.cx/2008/256-color-xterms-in-ubuntu
But even though I've installed 'ncurses-term' I don't have an Xdefault file or 'vimrc' as far as I can see.
~/.Xdefaults and ~/.vimrc report no files or directory.
If I run
$ tput colors
I get a response of 8
If I run
$ echo $TERM
I get xterm
It should be 'xterm-256color'
I'm stuck now, can anyone help?
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