Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

...in summary, a GUI version exists now.

>> - You can't realistically do syntax hilighting. (Well, again, I 
>> suppose theoretically you could - but with only 8 colours available, 
>> how good is that going to look?)
> 
> Consoles have 16 colors usually, not 8. Some Unix consoles support 4096. 
> Vim can use all 16 million colors on the GUI, but do you *really* need 
> them? Probably not. The default color schemes would be happy on 8-bit 
> color.

Really? That's interesting. I know that VGA gives you 16 colours, but I 
thought it was hard-wired so that you can only use 8 of those for the 
foreground, and the other 8 for the background?

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