On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:20:08AM -0500, nico wrote: > Have you tried updating your machine? "$TERM too long - sorry" is a > quite old bug, which has already been fixed for several months. Hmm.. I was using screen-vs from aur. Just switched to screen from extra and this bug is gone. But, setting termName to rxvt-unicode-256color in .Xresources still doesn't have any effect on non-screen terminals, i.e., no bold colours still. But, i also notice a strange behaviour. I suspect this might have something to do with just vim. I just tried these colour scheme scripts and they do show bold colours. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdefaults#Color_scheme_scripts Also, other applications such as cmus, mutt are also showing bold colours in non screen terminals. Only vim seems to be having this problem. I am out of all ideas.. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org