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neovim colors not "just working"

I have some simple (default) syntax highlighting, and other colors, in my regular vim. I'd like to try out neovim, so I did the 

cd && ln -s .vimrc .nvimrc && ln -s .vim .nvim

I'm currently on ubuntu, and installed neovim from the ppa at: https://launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa

(I can paste the contents of nvim -v, if needed)

Here is the old vim colors - note the line numbers, and the green of minibufexplorer:

Original vim colors

And here is what it looks like with nvim. It is doing some syntax highlighting, but not nearly what the original vim did.

Neovim colors

I was hoping this would be a simple drop-in replacement, but doesn't appear that way currently. I might certainly have something misconfigured in my system.

I also tried 

export VIMRUNTIME=/usr/share/vim/vim74

to no avail. The entirety of my .vimrc is:

filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
syntax on

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Solution

  • Check your TERM variable. It needs to be set to something like xterm-256color which says that the terminal supports 256 colors.