Update readme about colorschemes

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Zachary Yedidia
2016-08-30 11:24:02 -04:00
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@@ -83,7 +83,14 @@ sudo apt-get install xclip
If you don't have xclip or xsel, micro will use an internal clipboard for copy and paste, but it won't work with external applications.
### Windows colors
### Colors and syntax highlighting
If you open micro and it doesn't seem like syntax highlighting is working, this is probably because
you are using a terminal which does not support 256 color. Try changing the colorscheme to `simple`
by running `> set colorscheme simple`.
If you are using the default ubuntu terminal, to enable 256 make sure your `TERM` variable is set
to `xterm-256color`.
Many of the Windows terminals don't support more than 16 colors, which means
that micro's default colorscheme won't look very good. You can either set