Vim not displaying color unless TERM is set to "xterm-color"

[ali3n0]

To make vim display colored syntax highlighting seems there's no other way to force the TERM environment to "xterm-color" value. As a workaround, adding "export TERM=xterm-color" in /boot/home/config/boot/UserSetupEnvironment works, but, if there are no reasons to keep it as it is, TERM could default to "xterm-color" instead of "xterm"

[axeld]

As I just mentioned on the mailing list, in Linux it works just fine with TERM=xterm, so this is an issue of the vim port, not of Haiku.

[augiedoggie]

Replying to axeld:

As I just mentioned on the mailing list, in Linux it works just fine with TERM=xterm, so this is an issue of the vim port, not of Haiku.

I'm inclined to blame the ncurses/termcap which ships with Haiku. vim works fine for me with TERM=xterm if I have a terminfo database installed.

[axeld]

Now that's important information, thanks!

[kaliber]

I think it's a good time to remove ncurses from our repository and make it (mandatory) optional package.

[tidux]

No matter what I set TERM to, curses-based remote applications over telnet and SSH get horribly deformed - in almost the exact same way as using the version of Microsoft Telnet that comes with XP. I also saw the same behavior with vim and xterm vs. xterm-color with the latest nightly (hrev40312 gcc2-hybrid). I'd say Haiku's ncurses is in dire need of a fix.

[siarzhuk]

Fixed in hrev45364.