27/06/2008

rxvt-unicode 256 color support with vim

Following my previous post on minimizing the resources that urxvt needs on Gentoo, I tried applying some more patches to it that I found in Gentoo’s bugzilla.
Since that happened a few days ago there was no ebuild for version 9.05 yet. So I created one and applied the patch for the 256 color support.

Here’s my rxvt-unicode ebuild for version 9.05 with 256 color support: rxvt-unicode-9.05.ebuild.

So since I now have a terminal supporting 256 colors it’s time to make vim use it.
Following this guide for 256 colors in vim I made some tests.
Here are the screenshots:
rxvt-unicode without 256 color support displaying the output of 256colors2.pl:

rxvt-unicode with 256 color support displaying the output of 256colors2.pl:

rxvt-unicode without 256 color support with t_Co=8 using theme desert displaying 256colors2.pl

rxvt-unicode without 256 color support with t_Co=256 using theme desert displaying 256colors2.pl

rxvt-unicode with 256 color support with t_Co=256 using theme desert displaying 256colors2.pl

rxvt-unicode without 256 color support with t_Co=8 using theme desert256 displaying 256colors2.pl

rxvt-unicode without 256 color support with t_Co=256 using theme desert256 displaying 256colors2.pl

rxvt-unicode with 256 color support with t_Co=256 using theme desert256 displaying 256colors2.pl

rxvt-unicode without 256 color support with t_Co=8 using theme inkpot displaying 256colors2.pl

rxvt-unicode without 256 color support with t_Co=256 using theme inkpot displaying 256colors2.pl

rxvt-unicode with 256 color support with t_Co=256 using theme inkpot displaying 256colors2.pl

I am currently using desert256 with urxvt 9.05 with 256 color support of course 🙂
So with this unicode-rxvt ebuild I have a) unicode support b) tabs using fluxbox’s tab support c) 256 colors. I think that I currently don’t have any other wishes for a terminal.
My second terminal of choice, mrxvt still lacks unicode support 🙁

* Filed by kargig at 02:14 under Gentoo,Linux
* 9 Comments | 43,631 views

9 Responses to “rxvt-unicode 256 color support with vim”

  1. Vardigon
    June 27th, 2008 | 16:58
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.0 on Gentoo Linux Gentoo Linux

    Hey! I checked out your ebuild for the 256colors patch in 9.05 :). Works like a charm with the color test. Thanks!!!

  2. Ciaran McCreesh
    June 27th, 2008 | 21:40
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.0 on Gentoo Linux Gentoo Linux

    You could just use the 88 colour mode it’s always supported, no patching required.

  3. Ciaran McCreesh
    June 27th, 2008 | 21:47
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.0 on Gentoo Linux Gentoo Linux

    Why not use the 88 colour support that’s always been there, no patching required?

  4. site admin
    June 27th, 2008 | 22:09
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.0 on Gentoo Linux Gentoo Linux

    Well, since I can have 256 with a simple patch why stick at 88 ? I don’t mind patching if it doesn’t break anything else and as far as I am using it the patch works fine.

  5. George
    October 3rd, 2008 | 22:19
    Using Konqueror Konqueror 3.5 on Debian GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux

    Me likes xterm.

  6. Garry
    October 13th, 2008 | 08:40
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 on Ubuntu Linux Ubuntu Linux

    Great article! Thanks.

    This helped me add 256 color support to rxvt-unicode on Ubuntu. For those running Ubuntu, check out: http://scie.nti.st/2008/10/13/get-rxvt-unicode-with-256-color-support-on-ubunut

  7. Johannes
    January 23rd, 2009 | 11:50
    Using Opera Opera 10.00 on Linux Linux

    You might be interested in this vim script http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2390

  8. Hello_World
    August 22nd, 2009 | 18:20
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 on Gentoo Linux Gentoo Linux

    Tabs are also supported through the perl extension
    URxvt.perl-ext-common:default,tabbed

  9. site admin
    August 24th, 2009 | 01:25
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 on Linux Linux

    @hello_world: Tab support of urxvt is pretty minimal…you can do more things with fluxbox’s tab support than with urxvt’s … but that’s probably a matter of personal taste as well…

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