how to enable color in vi

[packets]

I want to enable the color in my vi editor to easy capture words,etc. The problem is its not enabled. I tried to put .vimrc with "syntax enable" and tried to edit a text file but still doesn't work. I also edit /etc/vimrc and put "syntax enable".

Anyone knows how to activate it???

[ypankaj]

By default, screen is not aware that it is running in a 256 color capable xterm. To make programs in screen recognize this feature, you need to set three things in your ~/.screenrc:

attrcolor b ".I"
termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'
defbce "on"

Refer this link: The 256 color mode of xterm

Thanks,
Pankaj.

[ypankaj]

Hi,
have you enable your vim colors..?
To enable colors you have to just edit "vimrc" file.
By default Vim stores its global configuration in /etc/vim/vimrc, and user specific configuration in ~/.vimrc.

Enabling syntax color highlighting during vim startup is as simple as adding the following line in configuration file.
:syntax enable

on Debian:
syntax on

[apoorv_khurasia]

Make sure you are using vim ver. 7.0+. I prefer the solution suggested by ypankaj.