[TriLUG] VIM Question

Heath Holcomb bluetea at nc.rr.com
Wed Mar 5 08:10:47 EST 2003


Vim also has color schemes that change whole sets of colors. You can do 
:colorscheme <TAB> to cycle through the choices.

Chris MacLeod wrote:
> you can also add:
> set background=dark (or light)
> to your .vimrc rather than resetting a whole bunch of colors
> this setting will make everything readable on a dark background
> and if you use gvim you can put background=light into your .gvimrc
> and have it very readable on a light background.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:12:19PM -0500, Scott Chilcote wrote:
> 
>>Nick Goldwater wrote:
>>
>>>Has anyone else noticed that by default VIM under SuSE does not display
>>>colors?
>>>
>>>Is there an easy way to enable this?
>>>
>>>Any help is much appreciated.
>>>
>>>Nick
>>
>>In the spirit of leaving no help unstated, here's what you add to .vimrc 
>>if you're not thrilled about any of the colors... Which are listed in
>>/etc/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt:
>>
>>highlight Comment ctermfg=cyan guifg=cyan
>>highlight Constant ctermfg=DarkRed guifg=Magenta
>>highlight Special ctermfg=DarkMagenta guifg=SlateBlue
>>highlight Identifier ctermfg=DarkCyan guifg=DarkCyan
>>highlight Statement ctermfg=Brown gui=bold guifg=Brown
>>highlight PreProc ctermfg=DarkMagenta guifg=Purple
>>highlight Type ctermfg=DarkGreen guifg=SeaGreen gui=bold
>>highlight Ignore guifg=bg
>>
>>I changed the comment color in this list to be a lighter shade of blue. 
>> The default one just about disappears into a dark background.
>>
>>Enjoy...
>>
>>--
>>Scott C.
>>
>>
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> 
> 


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