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Re:Interactive Vim tutorial by 0x4d464d48 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @11:38AM (#15401244)
The Ubuntu shell on Windows 10 comes with vim and syntax highlighting.
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Re:Interactive Vim tutorial by icc97 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:46PM (#15401806)
As far as I know, the Ubuntu shell still uses the console. There is indeed highlighting but basically only 8 colours that are dubiously split to make 16. A recent Windows update was supposed to give 256 colours but I tried and couldn't get it to work. Even then though you still haven't got bold or italics. It's these little things that I missed.
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Re:Interactive Vim tutorial by a_t48 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @01:03PM (#15401976)
I use Mintty and it has 256 colors. Not sure about bold and italics.
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