patch 8.1.0997: using GUI colors in vim.exe when 'termguicolors' is off commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/d5a5886ce90a30efc830b0053472735c5bbb4b0f Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Mar 7 06:40:27 2019 +0100 patch 8.1.0997: using GUI colors in vim.exe when 'termguicolors' is off Problem: Using GUI colors in vim.exe when 'termguicolors' is off. Solution: Add condition for 'termguicolors' set. (Ken Takata, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/4078)

README_src.txt for version 8.1 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-8.1-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!