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 <p>These settings should give you pretty good defaults (the ones I use):</p>
 
+<p>If colors don't work, and you know you're not going to use some
+weird non-VT compatible terminal (you most probably aren't), just
+say:</p>
+
+<pre>
+     /SET term_force_colors ON
+</pre>
+
 <p>I don't like automatic query windows, I don't like status window, I do
 like msgs window where all messages go:</p>