Here is how I handle this, *make sure you have vim and colorls packages installed, then for your .vimrc do something like this:*
syntax on set nocompatible set autoindent set smartindent set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set showmatch set vb t_vb= set ruler set incsearch set number *put this in your .profile:* # $OpenBSD: dot.profile,v 1.4 2005/02/16 06:56:57 jrecords Exp $ # # sh/ksh initialization alias ls='colorls -G' alias vi=vim PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:. export PATH HOME TERM=xterm-256color tmux attach || tmux new #if you don't use vim , this might not really apply but you'll get colors when you type ls, which is probably what you want. Jim On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:38 PM, frantisek holop <min...@obiit.org> wrote: > hi there, > > i am trying to make tmux use 256 colors. > > i have found this: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-d...@lists.debian.org/msg707066.html > > i have done step 2: > > $ xterm > $ echo TERM > $ TERM=xterm-256color > $ tput colors > 256 > > but it is not clear to me how can i do step 1. > what is the proper way to: > > "1) Set TERM=screen-256color inside so that applications INSIDE tmux know > that > it supports 256 colours, you can do this however you like but > default-terminal > is usually easiest." > > actually the man page states, somewhat misleadingly, that: > > The TERM environment variable must be set to ``screen'' for all > programs running inside tmux. New windows will automatically > have ``TERM=screen'' added to their environment, but care must > be > taken not to reset this in shell start-up files. > > what i have done in the end is to put > TERM=screen-256color > in my .kshrc that is referenced also by .profile's ENV > but it doesn't feel 100% right. > > -f > -- > there are 10 types of people: those that do binary, and those that don't.
