patch 8.0.0748: running Vim in terminal window doesn't use the right colors commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/b7a8dfeb49784145fe133496ce38703d236e4fbe Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sat Jul 22 20:33:05 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.0748: running Vim in terminal window doesn't use the right colors Problem: When running Vim in a terminal window it does not detect the right number of colors available. Solution: Detect the version string that libvterm returns. Pass the number of colors in $COLORS.

README_src.txt for version 8.0 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.0-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!