Thanks Gary. Yep It was working on the terminal, sorry, it was failling only on gvim. I found that ConqueShell plugin is a good option, although I dont know yet how to make vim to call ConqueShell when the :shell command is executed. Thanks
2012/5/31 Gary Johnson <[email protected]>: > On 2012-05-31, Pablo Giménez wrote: >> 2012/5/31 Gary Johnson <[email protected]>: >> > On 2012-05-31, Pablo Giménez wrote: >> >> Hello all. >> >> Is there any way to enable ANSI colors in a shell spawned from VIM >> >> using the :shell command? >> >> I just got the ANSI codes rather than the colors like in a regular >> >> shell using xterm or gnome-terminal. >> > >> > If you start Vim as vim, not gvim, in a terminal, then yes. If you >> > start Vim as gvim, either in a terminal or from a GUI launcher, then >> > no. >> Well I use vim in both ways. >> So what is the way to solve it when I start as vim? > > It should "just work". It could be that your TERM environment > variable is not being exported. In the :shell shell, execute > > echo $TERM > > If that doesn't show anything, then add > > export TERM > > to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. I would put it in > ~/.bash_profile, but the fashion these days seems to be to put > everything into ~/.bashrc. > >> And when I start as gvim is there any way to start a terminal that >> doesn't use ANSI characters, or at least doesn't the ANSI codes? > > The solution I use is to put this in my ~/.bashrc: > > if [ "$VIM" ] && [ "$TERM" = "dumb" ] > then > # For gvim's monochromatic :shell > PS1='\n\u@\h \w\n\$ ' > unalias ls > unalias grep > fi > > HTH, > Gary > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -- Un saludo Best Regards Pablo Giménez -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
