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I have an issue with the Vim color schemes: The background color does not fill the whole screen. For example, in the "blue" color scheme the whole screen should turn blue. Instead, the blue background only extends to the end of each line. Is this a setting in the console I'm missing or is this an issue with my vim default settings?

I'm only having this issue with Ubuntu 10.10. echo $TERM outputs xterm-color.

[Update]: To eliminate error sources my minimal ~/.vimrc looks like this:

filetype plugin on
colorscheme blue
syntax on

/etc/vim/vimrc contains the unchanged defaults of Ubuntu

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are you using screen? – Uku Loskit May 11 '11 at 13:53
No, I'm not using screen – chiborg May 11 '11 at 13:59
have you tried setting in vim set t_Co=256? – Martin May 11 '11 at 15:08
can you post the relevant section of .vimrc? – gerryk May 11 '11 at 15:44
set t_Co=256 makes the foreground text blink, but does not change the background color. – chiborg May 11 '11 at 16:22
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