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afterimage.vim: edit binary files by converting them to text equivalents
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1617
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Why doesn't vim-afterimage work in the Terminal? #4

Closed octos closed 9 years ago

octos commented 9 years ago

It's fine in GUI vim, but there are no colors in terminal vim. How come?

tpope commented 9 years ago

Because the XPM highlighting that afterimage.vim leverages only works in the GUI. You might have luck with CSApprox but it won't help out of the box.

octos commented 9 years ago

Unfortunately, CSApprox did not help. Is the XPM highlighting managed natively by the GUI vim, or does afterimage.vim take care of that? Couldn't it work a bit like vim-css-color?