No colors in terms?

[Llhorian]

Hmm, I have certain console programs like Vim and Mutt and so on set to use colors (in Vim's case syntax hilighting) which I find works really great.
Only problem is that these colours only work when actually working in the console. When I open up a terminal window (Aterm or Xterm) then it's just in black and white. Lighter colours just show up as bold white and darker colours as normal white.
Is this a terminal setting or something. How do I get colour in my term windows?
The strange thing is that files and directories are still in colour when using 'ls' in a term window.

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--Llhorian
'Linux, it's a little bit different.'

[kmj]

for vim, there's a setting in your .vimrc file. I don't have access to mine at the moment, though, sorry.

[pbharris]

i use gvim - it is not in a terminal, but it works very well.

[Llhorian]

You're missing the point here. It's not about vim or gvim. When I run vim or mutt or other console apps in the console they show the colors just fine, they only turn up in black and white when I use them in Xterms.
That's what I don't understand. I know how to get colours in vim normally, I already have that working.

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--Llhorian
'Linux, it's a little bit different.'