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I notice one of my linux remote login window shows color in VI editor interface but another window doesn't show color. These 2 windows are remotely connected to 2 different server IP addresses.
May I know why and how to change the color of the VI screen? I am using Putty on Windows 7 to remotely access the linux server.
You need to set your TERM in both to the same thing. If you use screen, those should be screen-256color-bce and if your terminal (urxvt for example) support 256 colours, you will get them. Note that vim requires set t_Co=256 in your ~/.vimrc to work properly.
I am assuming that you want colour to appear in all vi/vim windows. If not, just change your terminal (putty) to be black and white. You will then see no colours whatsoever.
By default (at least on Fedora and other Redhat derivitives) vim-enhanced is installed and it adds a file /etc/profile.d/vim.sh
alias vi=vim
So in your .bashrc or manually you can unalias vi and you'll get the uncolored vi interface you expect. I put the following in my standard bashrc
unalias vi 2> /dev/null
Using PuTTy , I unchecked the setting 'Allow terminal to specify ANSI colours' Under the Window=>Colours section. That did the trick without changing the background/foreground settings
