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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:

> 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.

Well then there's some difference to check on.  A couple of thoughts: (a) 
I usually link with loadable filters or builtin filters - except where I'm 
testing on some platform where flex isn't installed - so perhaps the 
problem is with external filters (though why it would work with xvile and 
not vile I can't guess), (b) there might be some other difference between 
your .vilerc and mine, so testing with just a "source vileinit.rc" might 
show the issue.

> > > 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".
>
>
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