Get colors using Mac OS X terminal when editing source code in remote linux machines

Question

I use terminal from Mac OS X Leopard to connect to remote Linux machines and edit C++ code there using VI.

What determines that in some machines, using the same MACOSX terminal settings, the source code gets colorized and in other not?

Thanks

Answer 1

Have you used :syntax enable in vim on the remote machine? Just asking, since on the ones that are working it could be in .vimrc or similar.