[TriLUG] Colors in VI (VIM)

[Tarus Balog]

Jaimie Livingston said:

> When I run vi/vim on a Cygwin SSH terminal, say to look at named zone
> files or a shell script, vi will often use dark colors (dark blue, dark
> burgundy, dark green) on a black background. Needless to say, this is
> hard to read for any length of time.

set background=dark from either a command prompt in vim or in your .vimrc
file.

-T

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