Re: [dwm] uxterm - no syntax highlighting in "vi"

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:57:40AM -0600, A A wrote:
> Greetings everyone!
>
> I'd like to write a script which will open up a bunch of uxterms & vim but
> for some reason I don't get any colors? I've check all environment
> variables and in vim "syntax on" won't work.
> Anyone have any ideas or is there a better to do this?
>
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> #get file list
> #open all files with:
>
> uxterm -bg '#000000' -fg '#eeeeee' -cr '#ffffff' +sb -e vim SOMEFILE (perl,
> c++, etc...)
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> Thanks everyone!
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> Regards,
> -Al

You need to do something like uxterm -e bash -l -c vim SOMEFILE. This
will start bash as a login shell and then execute vim within it, which
should provide you with syntax hilighting.

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