[TriLUG] Colors in VI (VIM)

[Jon Carnes]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 19:40, Tarus Balog wrote:
> 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

For more information (and further options) see the file:
  /usr/share/vim/colors/README.txt

Jon