Thanks for all your error reports, I didn't forget it. I'll cleanup my guide soon. Thanks again!

Setting 256 colors in screen and vim

~/.screenrc

# terminfo and termcap for nice 256 color terminal
# allow bold colors - necessary for some reason
attrcolor b ".I"
# tell screen how to set colors. AB = background, AF=foreground
termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'

~/.vimrc

set t_Co=256

Nice vim color schemes

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