spf13/spf13-vim — Issue #60: 256 vs 8 colors problem with tmux linux-consoles and xterm
Author: drake01
Created: 2012-03-05 14:30:30+00:00
State: open

I frequently use xterm as well as linux ttys (virtual linux consoles) with a new tmux-session running on each instance of them.

Native linux tty is unable to display 256 colors (AFAIK) and whereas xterm is..
But since both tty and xterm runs tmux session, $TERM is same for both.
I am unable to set t_Co value in vimrc.local, so that it would be able to distinguish tty and xterm terminal emulators with tmux running over them.

Although, I would love to use a tty with 256 color support (Question 1->) any suggestions about tty with 256 color support?? Currently checking out fbterm n a few others..

For now it would be great to able to identify terminal type and set t_Co correspondingly..
(Question2->)How should I do it??

I have been using spf13-vim for like a year or so. After this upgrade to 3.0 version, I am facing this sudden demand for 256 colors and vim is running slow too on xterm..
So (Question 3->) Does the additions done in 3.0 really bring things which previous versions lacked???