Hi, When I open vi in X with a simple file needing color (in that case a texi file) the escape sequences for color are written as is instead of coloring the output. On a tty it works fine. Here is what it looks like in vi (in xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal): ^[33m\input texinfo.tex ^[34m at c -*-texinfo-*- text ^[33m at bye ^[34m~