Vim Syntax Highlighting does not work

Question

I\'ve installed a fresh Arch Linux system on my laptop and downloaded the vim package.

I haven\'t altered the .vimrc file, but the syntax highlighting doesn\'t seem to w

Answer 1

in my case , I changed the term(terminal type) from vt100 to xterm. And it works.

To change the terminal type:

in bash:

export TERM=xterm

in bourne shell or ksh:

TERM=xterm
export TERM

in csh or tcsh:

setenv TERM xterm