Konsole color highlighting

[Richard England]

Paul Lemmons wrote:
> What causes a konsole session to show or not show colors? I have one 
> machine that "ls" will show color coded files and vi will show syntax 
> highlighted text. On another machine everything is green.
Is vi an alias for vim/gvim? Which Fedora version?

I believe that in both cases this is due to configuration (either 
default or user specific).    I'm not a KDE user but for a CLI window,  
bash  reads and includes the contents of /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh  
which defines the colors used for ls.   For GVIM, the colors I believe 
are dependent on whether you are running console (vim) or gui (gvim).  I 
don't think console vim has color ability (that may have changed for 
later versions of vim, though).  Start gvim and do  :help syntax and you 
can start to learn all about it.   In vim/gvim  you can do a :version 
command and it will tell you where the initialization files are.  You 
typically have  to have "syntax on" in one of the startup gvimrc files 
for the color highlights to work (check out :help gvimrc).  Some systems 
have this set up by default, others do not.

I'm sure there are others here that can give you a lot more detail.

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