VIM colour scheme working in puTTY

Getting colours working in VIMin a puTTY session can be a pain. If you use windows as your desktop OS and use PuTTY to access your Unix box/es and want to use Vim’s color schemes, you are going to run in to a lack of colours problem even if you set PuTTY to use 256 or system colours . Next I will show you some code that was found in Vim’s help that will help display more colours.

So insert the following lines into your vimrc and you should be able to use VIM colour schemes

Putty settings: Window, Colours

[x] Allow terminal to specify ANSI colours
[x] Allow terminal to specify xterm 256-colour mode
[x] Bolded text is a different colour

Settings in vimrc:

if &term =~ "xterm"
  "256 color --
  let &t_Co=256
  " restore screen after quitting
  set t_ti=ESC7ESC[rESC[?47h t_te=ESC[?47lESC8
  if has("terminfo")
    let &t_Sf="\ESC[3%p1%dm"
    let &t_Sb="\ESC[4%p1%dm"
  else
    let &t_Sf="\ESC[3%dm"
    let &t_Sb="\ESC[4%dm"
  endif
endif

For those of you that would like a visual representation, I have made you 5 vim colour charts (256 ) and attached them below. You can recreate the colour charts in vim by using creating the following script and then calling it in vim. so create a script called colour_demo.vim then from vim command prompt write

let num = 255
while num >= 0
exec 'hi col_'.num.' ctermbg='.num.' ctermfg=white'
exec 'syn match col_'.num.' "ctermbg='.num.':...." containedIn=ALL'
call append(0, 'ctermbg='.num.':....')
let num = num - 1
endwhile

:so colour_demo.vim

and it will display the colour charts for you.


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