Re: [vile] Is autocolor supposed to work in vile (as opposed to vile)?

[Eur Ing Chris Green]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:51:44PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:14:09PM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> > Is autocolor supposed to work in vile as well as xvile?
> 
> yes, it's supposed to work...
> 
Hmm, well on my systems it works everywhere in xvile and nowhere in
vile.


> > 
> > I have the standard sequence in my .vilerc file:-
> > 
> >     source filters.rc
> >     setv $autocolor-hook HighlightFilterMsg
> >     setv $read-hook HighlightFilterMsg
> >     set autocolor=500
> 
> I have "HighlightFilter" to avoid the message.
> Also, autocolor=50
>  
After being a bit confused about "to avoid the message" I took a
look at filters.rc and now see what you mean.  That's a good idea
actually, I'll leave it changed to HighlightFilter, thank you.

> > and in xvile it works, syntax colouring is automatic.  But in vile I
> > have to refresh manually using ^X-q.
> > 
... but I'm still left with it not working in vile.  It's odd as it's
exactly the same everywhere, on Solaris at work, on Linux (Slackware)
at home and also on ssh connections to other Linux and BSD systems.

Aaaahhhhhh!!!  That's not true actually, the vile 9.5i I'm running
remotely on one Linux system has autocolor working, I wonder what the
difference is.

Is there some configure option that might be affecting it?  For
vile I'm using "--with-perl --with-screen=ncurses --with-ncurses"
and for xvile it's "--with-perl --with-screen=Motif".


-- 
Chris Green