Re: vim: available colors?

From: Monique Y. Herman (spam_at_bounceswoosh.org)
Date: 09/30/03

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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:48:19 +0000 (UTC)

    On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:42:07 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dman@dman13.dyndns.org> penned:
    >
    > In that case, you need to put "set background=3Ddark" in your vimrc to
    > correct the problem. The thing is, vim has no way of knowing whether
    > your terminal (or xterm) has a white or black background. Since xterm
    > and gvim default to a white background, vim defaults to assuming you
    > have a white background. Thus the colors used for highlighting are
    > somewhat dark, to contrast with the white background. Setting
    > 'bg=3Ddark' in vim doesn't change your background, but rather tells vim
    > that your background is dark so that it will use lighter colors which
    > contrast with the dark background (but are impossible to read on a
    > white background).
    >
    > (type ":help background" in vim)
    >

    I used to have that set, and I distinctly remember having a reason to
    dislike it -- maybe how gvim handled it?

    Anyway, I have un-commented that line and it seems to be closer to what
    I want than the defaults, so whatever the original reason was, I guess
    I'll ignore it till it bites me. 

    -- 
monique
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