Re: vim: available colors?

From: Paul Mackinney (paul_at_mackinney.net)
Date: 09/30/03

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    Monique Y. Herman declaimed:
    > I'm mucking with syntax highlighting in vim (specifically, I like dark
    > backgrounds, but the red (for strings) and the blue (for comments) are
    > almost impossible for me to read).
    >
    > How do I know which color names are available for a given colordepth? I
    > assume that using 'set t_Co=16' is going to give me fewer color options
    > than if I set that to, say, 256 (and would any terminals support 256?).
    >
    > Thanks in advance for any advice!

    Well, aside from adjusting your brightness and contrast ;-) try

    :help syntax

    Down at item 16. (in my version) is a bunch of stuff about xterms.
    Everything in vim seems to be customizable, the eternal question is
    whether it's worth figuring out how...

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