Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses vimdiff as their etc-update tool run up against the same issue: vimdiff mode and certain syntax highlighting rules combine to make some sections of documents completely illegible. Same thing happens with a light background. john
Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:43:54 -0400, John Blinka wrote: You can remap the colours portage uses in /etc/portage/color.map. See man portage and man color.map for details. -- Neil Bothwick c:Press Enter to Exit Thanks for the color.map pointer. A web search turns up one person's solution: http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-portage-color-map-light-background-ftopict332304.html A /etc/portage/color.map file containing just this one line makes the invisible yellow portage output legible on my white background: yellow=brown I appreciate the help. Problem solved! John
Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background
On 22/3/2011, at 4:30pm, Bill Longman wrote: ... And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses vimdiff as their etc-update tool ... I would be interested to know how one does this. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background
On 03/23/2011 11:23 AM, John Blinka wrote: Thanks for the color.map pointer. A web search turns up one person's solution: http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-portage-color-map-light-background-ftopict332304.html A /etc/portage/color.map file containing just this one line makes the invisible yellow portage output legible on my white background: yellow=brown I appreciate the help. Problem solved! That *is* much better. Thanks!
[gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background
Hi, All, For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font colors in my x11-terms/terminal. I like a white background and a black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of the time. The colors that appear by default with the ls command are perfect. But the colors that appear when I do an emerge -ptDuNv, and the colors that appear when interactively merging config files with dispatch-conf (configured to use vimdiff) are sometimes completely unreadable. In particular, the light yellow font on a white background that portage uses sometimes is almost invisible. I have tried now and then in the past to develop my own color scheme, but without notable success. I once tried making the yellow darker in various ways, and that helped, but then the (formerly yellow) text became unreadable if I highlighted it. I tried dark backgrounds for a while, but I guess I have too many years of reading black print on white pages; dark backgrounds are just wrong for me. And I haven't found any satisfactory answers with web searches. Is there anybody with a font color scheme they like for use on a white background? Thanks for any suggestions, John Blinka
Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:43:54 -0400, John Blinka wrote: For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font colors in my x11-terms/terminal. I like a white background and a black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of the time. The colors that appear by default with the ls command are perfect. But the colors that appear when I do an emerge -ptDuNv, and the colors that appear when interactively merging config files with dispatch-conf (configured to use vimdiff) are sometimes completely unreadable. In particular, the light yellow font on a white background that portage uses sometimes is almost invisible. You can remap the colours portage uses in /etc/portage/color.map. See man portage and man color.map for details. -- Neil Bothwick c:Press Enter to Exit signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background
On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: Hi, All, For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font colors in my x11-terms/terminal. I like a white background and a black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of the time. The colors that appear by default with the ls command are perfect. But the colors that appear when I do an emerge -ptDuNv, and the colors that appear when interactively merging config files with dispatch-conf (configured to use vimdiff) are sometimes completely unreadable. In particular, the light yellow font on a white background that portage uses sometimes is almost invisible. I have tried now and then in the past to develop my own color scheme, but without notable success. I once tried making the yellow darker in various ways, and that helped, but then the (formerly yellow) text became unreadable if I highlighted it. I tried dark backgrounds for a while, but I guess I have too many years of reading black print on white pages; dark backgrounds are just wrong for me. And I haven't found any satisfactory answers with web searches. Is there anybody with a font color scheme they like for use on a white background? Thanks for any suggestions, Will someone please answer John so I can use it too? And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses vimdiff as their etc-update tool run up against the same issue: vimdiff mode and certain syntax highlighting rules combine to make some sections of documents completely illegible. My workarounds are to use vim's syntax off in *each* window (PITA) which solves the vimdiff problem. For poor color, I use xterm's Ctrl-Middle menu to go dark background. And most of root's vim sessions seem to think my background is dark, so I'm constantly have to do :set bg=light. I use xterm.
Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:30:28 Bill Longman wrote: On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: Hi, All, For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font colors in my x11-terms/terminal. I like a white background and a black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of the time. The colors that appear by default with the ls command are perfect. But the colors that appear when I do an emerge -ptDuNv, and the colors that appear when interactively merging config files with dispatch-conf (configured to use vimdiff) are sometimes completely unreadable. In particular, the light yellow font on a white background that portage uses sometimes is almost invisible. I have tried now and then in the past to develop my own color scheme, but without notable success. I once tried making the yellow darker in various ways, and that helped, but then the (formerly yellow) text became unreadable if I highlighted it. I tried dark backgrounds for a while, but I guess I have too many years of reading black print on white pages; dark backgrounds are just wrong for me. And I haven't found any satisfactory answers with web searches. Is there anybody with a font color scheme they like for use on a white background? Thanks for any suggestions, Will someone please answer John so I can use it too? And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses vimdiff as their etc-update tool run up against the same issue: vimdiff mode and certain syntax highlighting rules combine to make some sections of documents completely illegible. My workarounds are to use vim's syntax off in *each* window (PITA) which solves the vimdiff problem. For poor color, I use xterm's Ctrl-Middle menu to go dark background. And most of root's vim sessions seem to think my background is dark, so I'm constantly have to do :set bg=light. I use xterm. Sorry I don't have an answer to the OP, although Neil's suggestion should allow him to get rid of yellow fg colour. @Bill: Is colordiff any better/different than vimdiff? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
