Re: Is vim supporting 24 bit colors?

2016-09-24 7:05 GMT+03:00 Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 4:26 AM, KiYugadgeter <zyouhousikaku@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is vim supporting 24 bit colors?
>>
>> I want to use vim on windows10 bash.
>>
>> windows 10 bash is supporting 24bit colors on beta version.
>>
>> Will vim support 24bit colors?
>
> Vim supports between 2 (2^1) and 16777216 (2^24) colors, depending on
> how many _it can tell that_ your terminal supports. This is set by the
> termcap variable t_Co or by the equivalent terminfo setting, and these
> settings depend in turn on the 'term' setting (q.v.) If $TERM is not
> set, and Vim has no way of knowing otherwise, it will set an
> OS-dependent 'term' default: for 32- or 64-bit Windows, 'term'
> defaults to "win32". To see the number of colours Vim thinks that your
> terminal supports, use
> :set t_Co?

&t_Co will never give you 24-bit value. Also termcap/terminfo do not
normally contain information about 24-bit colors support, though tmux
developers has selected some custom setting they use to detect 24-bit
support. Vim AFAIK does not use it.

>
> For me, 256 colors are good enough, and once I set up my vimrc to make
> Vim use (as closely as possible) the same colors in a console and in
> the GUI, I can't tell the difference by the naked eye. See
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Using_GUI_color_settings_in_a_terminal
>
> See also ":help term.txt", especially the first two sections.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
>
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