From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: git color in commit editor Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:06:50 +0100 Message-ID: <201101061106.50636.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: Pavan Savoy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 06 11:06:58 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PamkD-0007AY-H6 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:06:57 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752437Ab1AFKGw (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 05:06:52 -0500 Received: from edge10.ethz.ch ([82.130.75.186]:37537 "EHLO edge10.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752399Ab1AFKGv (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 05:06:51 -0500 Received: from CAS12.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.212) by edge10.ethz.ch (82.130.75.186) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.218.12; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:06:40 +0100 Received: from pctrast.inf.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS12.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.212) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.218.12; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:06:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.37-rc8-desktop; KDE/4.5.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Pavan Savoy wrote: > On another machine with same vim version and same gitconfig and pretty > much all the same settings except that the > git version is git version 1.6.3.3, I don't have color in the commit editor... > > Moving to newer GIT versions didn't help either... > What am I missing? That's squarely in vim's domain, git does not (and cannot) impose any colors on the editor. So you need to configure vim on the second machine for the highlighting. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch