From d79e68bbf96ed67a81528114faf14dbcad18bdcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zachary Yedidia Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:24:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update readme about colorschemes --- README.md | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b2c86b3b..dce89e26 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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